staff reading list
Back to School!
The So to Speak editorial staff put together a list of reading recommendations for you…
Editor Melanie Tague Recommends:
The Opposite of Light by Kimberly Grey
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Assistant Editor Kristen Brida Recommends:
How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz
If the Tabloids are True, What are You? by Matthea Harvey
Blog Editor Holly Mason Recommends:
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Assistant Blog Editor Madeleine Wattenberg Recommends:
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
Change Me: Tales of Sexual Transformation from Ovid Translations by Jane Alison
Poetry Editor Danielle Badra Recommends:
Sand Opera by Philip Metres
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
Assistant Poetry Editor Ela Thompson Recommends:
Queen of the Fall by Sonja Livingston
Fiction Editor Bianca Spinosa Recommends:
Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Assistant Fiction Editor Amanda Bender Recommends:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Nonfiction Editor Meg Sipos Recommends:
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Assistant Nonfiction Editor Liesel Hamilton Recommends:
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination by Barbara Hurd