Glory Szabo, Author

Glory Szabo is an author, writer, poet, and online creator, having finished her first novel, How to Feed a Mirror, a speculative literary novel, in 2026. A nocturnal writer, most unhinged between 10 pm and 1 am, when she’s not lurking online and convincing herself that she’s “doing research for the next novel,” she enjoys neglecting housework and writing in long, obsessive bursts. Glory writes novels for weird girls, boys, and nonbinary folk and their performative situationships.

About me

I moved to the US alone when I was sixteen years old, where I studied philosophy and psychology at university. As a first-generation Hungarian immigrant, stories about outsider identities, communities, and belonging are a recurring theme in my writing. I have been active in online spaces since the early 2010s as a creative writer and I continue sharing my work as gloryszabo on Instagram to this day (other channels coming soon).

I first conceived the idea for my novel while working as a gallery assistant at a contemporary art museum, while editing academic dissertations as a part-time job and performing spoken-word poetry at coffee shops and house parties. The latter evolved into the popular I Read Into Things (@ireadintothings) blog on Tumblr during the platform’s peak era and as one of the top alt-lit blogs, it grew an audience of over 100k followers. I’ve since moved to the UK, but I still receive messages from followers all over the world about how much my early prose and poetry meant for them due to its melancholy themes about love and intimacy, the vulnerability of human connection, existential isolation, and the ever-present anxieties of daily life. I now work in a part-time marketing role, based in a historic village in Essex, with my novel as my central creative focus.

Biography

2010-2011: Lynchburg Underground Poets [YouTube]: spoken word performer [Lynchburg, VA, USA].

2009-2011: Marketing at the Riverviews Artspace Museum. Member of the Lynchburg Arts Council [Lynchburg, VA, USA], campaigned against reducing state funding in arts education and museums via the Virginians for the Arts.

2009-2015: Tumblr years: writer of one of the top alt-lit Tumblr blogs [ireadintothings] with over 100k followers on the platform. Editor and community curator for the poetry and prose radars and tags [Richmond, VA, USA]. I was also an active member of the local art community. You can read my interview with the iconic Dirty Richmond blog here.

2016-2018: The3Million, early founding member, immigrant rights campaigner (social media) [London, UK]

2026: Finished my debut novel [London, UK]

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I also enjoy collaborating with other artists on different creative projects and mediums predominantly as a writer, including as lyricist [Way, Shape or Form, Subtle Misspelling] and script writer.