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

Holly Mason

Holly Mason received her MFA in Poetry from George Mason University, where she taught undergraduate English courses and served as the blog editor for So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Her poems have appeared in Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Outlook Springs, The Northern Virginia Review, Bourgeon, and Foothill Poetry Journal. She has been a reader and panelist for OutWrite (A Celebration of LGBT Literature) in D.C. She currently lives and teaches in Fairfax, Virginia.

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