Katlina Sommerberg
Surrealist & Speculative Fiction Writer
Katlina Sommerberg writes speculative fiction at the edge of the surreal, where human minds melt into ecosystems, falling feathers carry heavy messages, and animals remember what we’ve forgotten. Xyr stories weave around biopunk, cyber-surrealism, and mythological fantasy, but always circle back to grief, identity, and the strange ecologies of the world. Xe writes with the conviction that art is a window to the soul—sometimes grotesque, sometimes mythic, always alive.
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Flash and Short Fiction
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 #192024 Publications
The Day Our Swarm Almost Collapsed, published in the anthology Divergent Realms
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, trans 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 ecological surrealism, xyr signature style.Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sommerberg then wandered through the United States, living in cities such as Portland (Oregon, not Maine), San Francisco, Norfolk (Virginia), and Miami. Sommerberg has never found a city's human culture to xyr tastes; nature has always been xyr home. Real ecosystems slip into Sommerberg's surreal ecologies, such as: California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, Florida's Coral Reefs, and the Chattahoochee River Basin.Sommerberg currently lives in Brazil, where xe is at work on a series of projects blending ecological surrealism with themes of grief, ecology, and transformation.
Will work for Dopamine
In progress! Follow Sommerberg's twitter for updates.