Mega Milk: Essays
Feminist Press, January 13, 2026
A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.
“Milk is just the beginning of this book. Cows are just the beginning. Animal rights, factory farming, capitalist desecration, human-animal relations ranging from cruelty to tenderness, Megan’s own autobiography—are just the beginning. Mega Milk is a feat of literary virtuosity, a kaleidoscope of eros that left me gasping.”
—Dodie Bellamy, author of Bee Reaved
An Indie Next pick for January!
About
Megan Milks (they/them) 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 Press's 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 4Columns, The New York Times, and Bookforum, among other publications.
Follow them on Substack here.
Selected Press
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"Fiction as a Space for Processing": Interview with Cassie Packard at BOMB
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"The Author and the Critic II": Interview with Aishwarya Subramanian at Strange Horizons.
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Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reviewed by Cecily Chen at Chicago Review.
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Slug reviewed by Elizabeth Hall at The Observer
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"A real pre-trans trip...": Eli Cugini on Margaret at Xtra Magazine
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"Where the Music Plays...": Jasmine Dream Wagner on Tori Amos Bootleg Webring
at Michigan Quarterly Review