Author Event! Megan Milks's "Mega Milk: Essays"!

Join us on June 10 from 6-7pm as we host Megan Milks in conversation with JD Scott to discuss their new book, Mega Milks: Essays. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.

About the book:

An ABA Indie Next List Pick for January 2026

A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.

For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the best practices for giving and receiving a hug. With Mega Milk, Megan Milks confirms their place as one of our most exciting queer thinkers and writers.

About the author:

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, Slug and Other Stories, and Mega Milk: Essays, all published by Feminist Press. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, was published as part of Instar Books' Remember the Internet series. They are also the co-editor, with Marisa Crawford, of We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers. They have written book reviews for , The New York Times, and Bookforum, among other publications.

About the moderator:

JD Scott is the author of two books: a collection of poetry and a collection of stories. Scott’s prose and poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, Sonora Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Other writing has been featured in the Best American Experimental Writing and Best New Poets anthologies. Scott is a Lambda Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow and has attended residencies at the Millay Colony and the Edward F. Albee Foundation.

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