Summer Managing Editor Intro

[alliearend]

Hello, Asian American lit fans! My name is Allie Arend and I'm your new summer managing editor here at AALF. I'm a southern transplant from Arkansas to the desert of California's Inland Empire, where I'm working on a PhD in English at the University of California, Riverside. I love contemporary speculative fiction, and my PhD research focuses on sf that imagines more just worlds and how we can bring them into being, with theoretical touchstones in Black feminist theory, queer studies, and utopian studies, among others. It's hard to pick an all-time favorite book, but Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower is definitely a contender. I've just finished reading Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, which I really loved, and will be reading Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne next. I'm also in the process of getting a copyediting business off the ground and am thrilled to get to do some editing here as well. 

Happy reading, and don't be a stranger!