Nine splashy sea creature titles

Tessa Yang is a reader, writer, and shark enthusiast from New York State. She received her MFA from Indiana University where she served as the Editor of Indiana Review.

Yang's story collection, The Runaway Restaurant, was published by 7.13 Books in 2022. Her stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Cincinnati Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere, and her flash fiction has been featured in Best Small Fictions 2024, Flash Fiction America, and Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2018 and 2019.

Her debut novel is The Jellyfish Problem.

[Q&A with Tessa Yang]

At People magazine Yang tagged nine favorite sea creature books, including:

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

When he’s not making you laugh out loud, Beauman will disturb you with this novel’s near-future dystopia, in which mass species extinction has been fully monetized and an unlikely duo must search for the most intelligent fish on the planet: the Venomous Lumpsucker. Beauman’s world-building cleverly balances the probably hyperbolic and the eerily plausible. The result is an eco-thriller as unsettling as it is entertaining.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue