Meg Elison (she/they), author extraordinaire and lover of fat fashion, is here to talk about her latest book Number One Fan (that Sophia read in 24 hours), what it’s like to navigate the publishing industry as a fat person, and how fashion forms her rebellion against societal body standards. She also takes us back to her experience with her mom’s bariatric surgery and how that radically realigned how she felt about her fat body as a young person.

Meg Elison is a Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Slate, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley.

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