So Mayer

So MeyerSO MEYER is a writer, editor and bookseller. Their recent books include queer SFF Unreal Sex (co-edited with Adam Zmith, Cipher, 2021), essay A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020), poetry chapbook jacked a kaddish (Litmus, 2018) and cultural history Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015), as well as contributions to The Film We Can’t See (BBC Sounds, 2022, produced by Adam Zmith), Altered States (Ignota, 2021), On Relationships (3ofCups, 2021), At the Pond (Daunt, 2019), Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (Atlantic, 2018) and Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry (Ignota, 2018). Their collection Truth & Dare published by Cipher in 2023.

So works part-time as a bookseller at Burley Fisher Books, where they produce BFDay, the shop’s biannual literary festival. They are part of queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes, editing the collective’s web magazine Culture Club.

  • Areas of expertise: poetry, creative and critical non-fiction: essay and long form, speculative fiction: short and long form
  • Location: London
  • Possible meeting places: Burley Fisher Books, Haggerston, British Library
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