Morgan Leigh Davies is a writer and the editor-in-chief of Big Bang Press. She has read a lot of books, and possibly even more fanfiction. She lives in New York, and you can find her on Tumblr and Twitter.
Morgan Leigh Davies' previous work for The Toast can be found here.
Recently, I slept on the ground for the first time in maybe ten years, and I didn’t do it in a campground in the middle of the wilderness but instead on a small strip of grass in-between a busy street and the San Diego Convention Center, under a fleece blanket with someone I had met around six hours
A couple of years ago, I sat in on the first class of a seminar on cyberculture at Columbia, taught by Brenda Silver, which I sort of knew I wasn’t going to be able to take due to an over-full schedule, but wanted to check out anyway. In this first, massively overpacked, section, she asked her students what they thought “slash” was. Everyone, the male students in particular, immediately began to look incredibly uncomfortable. “Um,”…
1. A Portrait of the Author as a Young Fan I got my first computer when I was fourteen, the summer before my freshman year of high school. It was a Dell, and it was blue, and it weighed around as much as my little brother. I don’t remember how long it took for the intoxicating freedom of private internet access to translate into the discovery of Harry Potter fanfiction, but it can’t have been…
Morgan Leigh Davies is a writer and the editor-in-chief of Big Bang Press. She has read a lot of books, and possibly even more fanfiction. She lives in New York, and you can find her on 