Accolades | Reviews | Interviews
- 2026
- Publisher's Weekly
- "Siegert excels at capturing volatile emotions: Jaden’s grief, suspicion, and fierce loyalty to the flawed father who raised him feel especially authentic. (…) the novel’s core dilemma—identity forged by love versus biology—lands solidly. Readers will find this a gripping exploration of self-definition.”
- Booklist Review by Austin Ferraro
- "With incredibly on-point social commentary combined with a writing style that creates a smooth, rapid, and effortless read, Siegert offers an updated take on the Caroline B. Cooney style of YA thriller."
- School Library Journal Review by Lisa Krok
- “This unique premise is compelling and fast-paced. Relationships are fleshed out throughout (…) VERDICT A unique and intriguing addition to teen collections.”
- 2025
- Publishers Marketplace - Mallory Kass at Scholastic has acquired The Names We Buried by Mia Siegert.
- 2021
- Chicago Review of Books: Top 10 LGBTQ+ Books To Celebrate Gender Diversity by Sonia Ahmed
- 2020
- School Library Journal review of SOMEBODY TOLD ME.
VERDICT: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, especially where #OwnVoices books are in demand
- Booklist, Reviewed on 1 March 2020
- " . . . Siegert’s blunt and honest prose brings together a compelling narrative layered with intersections of gender, sexuality, and spirituality, which will be sure to provide teen audiences with much food for thought."
- Publishers Weekly: Reading with Pride: LGBTQ Books 2020 Compiled by Gilcy Aquino
- School Library Journal: 10 YA Mysteries To Give You Chills | Summer Reading 2020
- Buzzfeed: 30 LGBTQ YA Books You'll Absolutely Want To Pick Up This Spring by Dahlia Adhler
- Reader Voracious: 2020 Bookish Awards Semi Finalist for SOMEBODY TOLD ME, YA Thriller Category
- Teen Librarian Toolbox: Book Review for SOMEBODY TOLD ME by Amanda MacGregor
- "It’s not often that I run across a book where I think, wow, this setting and some of these characters are not like anything I’ve ever read before in YA. That’s not to say they don’t exist anywhere—try as I may, I can’t read all the YA books ever published—but they were new and unique to me. Given that I read hundreds of books a year, many of the particulars eventually get lost as they get buried under new things I’ve read, but Siegert’s characters and setting will stick with me."
- Book Riot: The Ultimate Guide To Spring 2020 YA Books For Your TBR by Kelly Jensen
- Book Riot: Get These Titles Stuck in Your Head: YA Earworms, 2020 Edition by Kelly Jensen
- 2019
- LGBTQ Reads: Exclusive Cover and Excerpt Reveal: Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert featured by Dahlia Adhler
- Make way, make way, for the first bigender MC in traditionally published YA! (Or at least that I know of, but I feel pretty good about this.) This is a very exciting cover for me to be revealing in particular because the author is the person who taught me the very time “bigender” lo a bunch of years ago, so I’m thrilled to be showing off the cover of Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert, which releases from Carolrhoda on April 7, 2020 and tells the story of a Russian Jewish bigender teen who discovers they can overhear confessions to their priest uncle and takes it upon themselves to become a “guardian angel.”
- 2017
- The Quivering Pen - The Eclectic Shelf: Eric Rickstad’s Library
- Huffington Post: 'Outlander' Author Diana Gabaldon Says English Majors Will End Up Serving Fast Food by Claire Fallon
- 2016
- Bustle: Jolly Fish Press Closes Its Doors In Surprise Move by Emma Cueto
- (Siegert debuts at No. 1 on Amazon)
- What Could Have Been - A response to Mia's Middle School Bully Committing Suicide
- Depression and Obsession: The Pressure of Teen Athletes - Teen Librarian Toolbox #MHYALit (Mental Health in Young Adult Literature)
- 2015
- Whiskey Summer - Interview + Free Short Story
- Literary Dialogue - Author Mia Siegert, Bringing Edgy Back
- Query Tracker - Mia Siegert upon receiving an offer of Representation
- The Writer In the World - Pitch Madness! How I Got My Agent
- How I Got My Agent: Pitch Madness Team Yellow Member Mia Siegert
- Montclair State University - New Publications from English Alumni
- Publisher’s Marketplace - JERKBAIT sold
- Are MFAs Worth It?
- 2014
- The Casserole Reading ft Anne Bean and Mia Siegert (Video)
- Berkeley College News Line
- The Hockey Writers - A True Fan vs. Being a Jerk
- 2013
- Heron Moon Press - It All Depends on How You Read It
- Limn Literary & Arts Journal - Excerpt OUTGROWN HORSES (p6)
- Writers Circle - Who Are You Writing For?
- 2012
- Clapboard House - Excerpt OUTGROWN HORSES
- 2011
- Word Riot: Excerpt OUTGROWN HORSES
- NJ.com - Flemington Author Will Teach Free Writing Courses
