Katlina Sommerberg
Surrealist & Science Fiction Writer
Katlina Sommerberg writes science fiction at the edge of the surreal, where human minds melt into machinery, megastructures carry the heavy weight of civilization, and rats live inside forgotten infrastructure. Xyr stories weave around hard science, cyber-surrealism, and the sublime, but always circle back to grief, identity, and the strange construct called civilization.@ksommerberg.bsky.social
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Short Fiction and Poetry
2026 Publications
To Devour Your Own Name — published in Adventitious Issue One
Spat upon for her carnivorous nature, a hyena mounts a screaming carousel built of bone, gods, and devouring hunger. As the ride strips her bare, she must either deny her essence forever or consume the divine to become something sacred.Plague of Plenty — published in Plott Hound Issue 4
Beneath the city streets, a young rat named Nix is the only rat in her colony who prefers to eat healthy algae over addictive chips. When the algae's exponential growth rate begins to choke the sewage flow, the Rat King summons the colony—and Nix hopes he will see reason.
The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator — published in Strange Horizons 23 March 2026
"The Sisyphus Cylinder does not rest.
It carries us all in its hollow rib cage,
orbit after orbit,
a pressure cooker of breath and sweat."2025 Publications
The Humming Refrigerator is Almost Purring 🌿🐈💔, published in the anthology Costs of Living
Tiny Pawprints on Frosty Glass, published in BFS Horizons, Issue #19
Frog in the Data Stream, published in Star*Line, Issue 48.42024 Publications
The Day Our Swarm Almost Collapsed, published in the anthology Divergent Realms 2
Death Rides a White Motorcycle, published in HyphenPunk2023 Publications
The Pest in Golden Gate Park🕷🌲🤖, published in Zooscape
Bubble, Double, and Trouble Steal Pizza from a Delivery Robot 🦝🍕🤖, published in Twenty Two Twenty Eight
Employee Termination Protocol, published in HyphenPunk2022 Publications
Death is the Referee 🏀🐏🏆, published in Zooscape
We Are Robot, published in the anthology Decoded Pride
Xe was also a Dream Foundry Contest Finalist
Finding a Lost Inventor, published in Voice of Dog2021 Publications
Be Productive Like Cha-Cha 🥜🥜🥜, published in Zooscape
Go Fix Yourself, published in hyphenpunk
About
Katlina Sommerberg is a speculative fiction writer whose work explores surreal ecologies, animal embodiment, and the haunted machinery of empire. Sommerberg's stories draw on influences from cyberpunk, eco-criticism, and mythic fantasy, often written from the perspectives of animals, fractured collectives, or post-humans. All of these elements combine into Sommerberg's unique authorial identity.Sommerberg currently lives in Brazil, where xe is at work on a series of projects.
Will work for Dopamine
In progress! Follow Sommerberg's twitter for updates.