WHO WE ARE
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WHO WE ARE ✨
It is no secret that the literary canon and literary journals are largely comprised of heteronormative, patriarchal, cisgender, able-bodied white men.
So to Speak seeks work by writers, poets, and artists who want to challenge and change the identity of the “canonical” writer.
Our mission is to provide a digital and print platform to amplify the voices of BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, nonbinary people, women, neurodivergent people, people of all different religions or none, migrants, refugees & immigrants (regardless of citizenship), and incarcerated writers.
MISSION
So to Speak was founded as a feminist journal in 1993 by an editorial collective of MFA candidates at George Mason University. As our journal has evolved over the years, so has our outlook on feminism.
We believe in an intersectional feminist outlook that includes, advocates for, and amplifies the perspectives & experiences of marginalized individuals.
HISTORY
EDITORS
SATORI GOOD (they/them)
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Satori is a queer speculative writer and cat parent from Lawrence, Kansas. Their work appears or is forthcoming in the Baffler, Does it Have Pockets, M E N A C E, and elsewhere; they were named winner of Fugue’s 2025 prose contest and the Paul Radin Memorial Scholarship through the Community of Writers. They are working on a short story collection encompassing sea creature body horror.
SHAY MCINTOSH (she/her)
MANAGING EDITOR
ERIN HOSKINS (she/her)
BLOG & ART EDITOR
Erin is a first year MFA student in GMU’s fiction program. While attending Oregon State University, she edited Prism, the university's premier art and literary journal. Erin works as a foreign rights coordinator for a Maryland-based publishing company. Her short stories have been published in The Nature of Things, OxMag, and elsewhere.
BEX PACHL (they/them)
NONFICTION EDITOR
Bex is a second-year MFA candidate in Nonfiction Creative Writing at GMU. Bex earned their BA in Sociology from Wellesley College. Whether self-reflection or rigorously-researched essays, Bex enjoys reading works that engage with intersectionality’s nuance and complexity.
YJ JUN (she/her)
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITOR
RILEY JOHNSTON (she/her)
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR
MATTI BEN-LEV (he/him)
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITOR
FICTION EDITOR
EMILY WEISENBERGER (she/her)
Emily J. Weisenberger is a justice-forward speculative fiction writer for children and adults. Her short stories are published in Tales to Terrify, L’Esprit Literary Review, and The Vanishing Point, among others. Emily earned her MA in applied anthropology in 2018 and has recently edited an anthology.
Pari Sabti is a second year MFA candidate for poetry at George Mason University. Born and raised in Iran, they currently live in Northern Virginia with their family. In their free time they enjoy going on walks, singing, and arguing about semantics with their sister. Their poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review’s MQR Mixtape: Place, Virginia Literary Review, and The Windward Review.
PARI SABTI (they/them)
POETRY EDITOR
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