Red Hen Press

Molly Fisk at the Sierra Poetry Fringe Festival Poetry Crawl
2026-03-28 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UBA SEO 225 Broad St. Nevada City, CA
Molly, Kirsten Casey, & Bishop Randall read poems by native poets

Enjoy a community day with Florencia Ramirez at The Other Strawberry Festival!
2026-03-28 13:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Community Roots Garden, 1801 Joliet Place, Oxnard, CA, 93030, United States
The Other Strawberry Festival—not to be confused with the popular two-day Strawberry Festival that celebrates all things strawberry—invites us to look at the berry more fully. We will still honor the sweetness of strawberries—and the hands that harvest them.
This gathering also asks a deeper question: What would it look like to grow strawberries—and all agriculture on the Oxnard Plain—in a way that truly cares for people and the planet?
The festival marks the transition from a virtual gathering to an in-person event, bringing together community partners, youth leaders, farmers, and neighbors who are weaving a new path forward.

Molly Fisk: Sierra Poetry Fringe Festival
2026-03-27 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Miner’s Foundry Cultural Center 325 Spring St. Nevada City, CA
5 Nevada City Women Poets, 10th anniversary. Molly reads with Kirsten Casey, Judy Crowe, Ingrid Keriotis, & Judie Rae

Poetry and Prose reading with HELEN BENEDICT, Stephen O’Connor, Vijay Seshadri and Anja Konig
2026-03-25 18:00 (America/New_York) | Von Bar, Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Join Von Bar for poetry and prose with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshedri; Helen Benedict, author of 14 books, including The Good Deed; Stephen O’Connor, novelist and poet, whose novel “We Want So Much to Be Ourselves,” is forthcoming; and Anja Konig whose new poetry collection, Noise, will be out in 2027.
Helen Benedict will read from her forthcoming novel, The Soldier’s House, along with poets and novelists.

Marivi Soliven Stories On Screen and On the Page
2026-03-17 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Saroyan Area, 6th floor San Francisco Public Library 100 Lark Street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco premiere of the award-winning short film “Pandemic Bread,” doubled with more tales from Suddenly Stateside Postscript.

An Inaugural Reading & Conversation at Watermelon Books LA with Award-Winning Novelists Randa Jarrar & NANCY KRICORIAN
2026-02-27 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Watermelon Books, Holy Ground 4874 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90016, United States
Watermelon Books LA presents its first public event — a powerful evening of literature, solidarity, and shared histories of diaspora and genocide connecting Palestinian and Armenian experiences.
As survivors of ethnic cleansing and genocide, Armenian and Palestinian communities share intertwined histories of loss, endurance, and resistance that continue to inform liberation struggles and shape global solidarity today.
Through fiction and memoir, our featured authors explore the search for home across generations shaped by dispossession, displacement, and exile. Their works affirm writing as an act of resistance—one that preserves memory, asserts truth, and creates connections beyond borders.
NANCY KRICORIAN
Award-Winning novelist of the Armenian diaspora
Author of The Burning Heart of the World (2025), Zabelle(1998), Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003), and All the Light There Was (2013)
Nancy Kricorian is the author of four novels centered on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience. Her most recent novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is set among Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.. She has been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers <https://wearenotnumbers.org/> since 2015 and lives in New York. Learn more about Nancy at https://nancykricorian.net <https://nancykricorian.net/>
WHY THIS NIGHT MATTERS
This event reflects Watermelon Books’ commitment to building a cultural home rooted in history, truth, and literary resistance.
Stories connect us. Solidarity sustains us.

APRIL OSSMANN, Beth Malow and Doug Teschner readings from WE and Beyond the Politics of Contempt
2026-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Hartland Public Library, 110 E. Park Avenue, Hartland, VT, United States
Join April Ossmann, Beth Malow and Doug Teschner readings from We and Beyond the Politics of Contempt with discussion on bridging political divides at Hartland Public Library!

Nan Rae Brush Painting Workshop
2025-06-21 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
We are pleased to invite you to a special brush painting workshop on Saturday, June 21 where you can learn how to paint one of the Four Gentlemen/Four Seasons of Brush painting – the Bamboo under the guidance of renowned Artist Nan Rae. Her style is based on the Literati or Gentlemen Scholars of ancient China, conveying the Chinese saying “from heart to arm… to hand to brush… to paper.” Combining the grace of the Literati style with an impressionist approach to color, Nan will also be painting the Poppy and the King of All Flowers – the Peony.
Space is limited so reserve your seat today!
Saturday, June 21
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Red Hen Press: 1540 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Tickets: $65 online, $80 at the door
All brush painting supplies will be provided!

A Special Literary Salon with Maxine Hong Kingston and Andrew Lam in Berkeley
2025-06-14 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are pleased to invite you to a literary salon in Berkeley featuring celebrated authors Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior, Knopf, 1976) and Andrew Lam (Stories from the Edge of the Sea, Red Hen Press, 2025).
In addition to an inspiring conversation among these authors and Red Hen Press publisher, Kate Gale, you’ll enjoy delicious food and summer refreshments.
We hope you’ll join us for a celebration of literature and small press publishing! Please RSVP below to save your seat for this special event. We will be in touch by email with the event address soon after.
Date: Saturday, June 14
Time: 2:30p.m.– 4:30p.m.
Location: Private Residence, Berkeley, CA 94703 (address provided upon RSVP)
If you have any questions, please contact Brooke at brooke.erdmann@redhen.org

Maxine Hong Kingston, daughter of Chinese immigrants, is a literary pioneer, poet, memoirist, and fiction writer. She is the author of numerous nonfiction books including National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and National Book Award-winner China Men (1980). She also edited the anthology Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), compiled from the work of participants in the therapeutic poetry workshops she has led for more than 500 veterans of war. Her honors include the National Medal of Arts (presented by former President Barack Obama), the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Humanities Medal (presented by former President Bill Clinton), the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature, the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the title Living Treasure of Hawaii. She is a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland, California.
Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was 11 years old. He attended UC Berkeley, studying biochemistry, but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation. He entered the creative writing program at San Francisco State University instead. While still in school, he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has written for many newspapers and magazines since, including National Geographic Traveler, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Nation. A regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for over seven years, Lam is the author of four books and has won the PEN Open Book Award, the Josephine Miles Literary Award, and many others. In 2004 a PBS documentary about his life called, My Journey Home, in which a film crew followed him back to Vietnam, was aired nationwide. Lam has lectured at many universities and colleges and taught as a writer-in-residence at San Jose State University from 2015 to 2016.
“Andrew Lam might’ve entitled this book War and Love, so universal and personal are his stories. I promise you: read Stories from the Edge of the Sea, and you will receive gifts of wonder and grief, shock and delight.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston

STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA with author ANDREW LAM and Aimee Phan
2025-06-05 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
Join authors Andrew Lam and Aimee Phan in conversation on Lam’s new book, Stories from the Edge of the Sea. At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband’s death through frantic Facebook postings, a writer enters an old lover’s home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast, open-ended terrain, then Andrew Lam’s short stories are its mountains, valleys, and lakes. Together they seek to chart a barely explored country.
“Andrew Lam might’ve entitled this book War and Love, so universal and personal are his stories. I promise you: read Stories from the Edge of the Sea, and you will receive gifts of wonder and grief, shock and delight.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and others
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Mechanics’ Institute

LIVE ON ZOOM: Author Andrew Lam Discusses “Stories from the Edge of the Sea”
2025-05-06 19:00 - 20:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Andrew Lam discusses the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea, exploring love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California.
At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband’s death through frantic Facebook postings, a writer enters an old lover’s home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast, open-ended terrain, then Andrew Lam’s short stories are its mountains, valleys, and lakes. Together they seek to chart a barely explored country. “Andrew Lam’s Stories from The Edge of the Sea beautifully offers tales of longing, repression, and love as he recalls experiences of immigration and confronts the ruptures amidst generational memories. These stories are indelible, profound, and unforgettable.” —Lynn Novick, codirector of The Vietnam War
Time: 7:00PM – 8:15PM
Location: Live on Zoom, register directly HERE.

Literary Salon in Seattle! Celebrating Pacific Northwest Writers
2025-05-06 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike Street #301, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
We are pleased to invite you to a literary salon in Seattle featuring an incredible slate of the Pacific Northwest’s finest writers: Gary Lemons (The Book of Spells), Molly Olguín (The Sea Gives Up the Dead), Kristen Millares Young (Subduction), and Amber Flame (apocrifa). Join us for a celebration of literature and small press publishing!
Tuesday, May 6
6:30 p.m. Reception with refreshments & light hors d’oeuvres
7:15 p.m. Program
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum: 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101
Parking: We recommend parking at The Pike Place Market Garage.
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Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, activist and educator. In addition to creating change as Program Director of Hedgebrook, Flame continues to work as a writing instructor in her community and for current and formerly incarcerated women and youth while working on a third poetry collection and making music with her band, Last of the RedHot Mamas. Her second collection of poetry, apocrifa (Red Hen Press), was described as “an elegant, loving, and lovely journey [that] lifts us up, drops us, then lifts us again.”
Gary Lemons has written poetry since 1965 and has published eight books of poetry, including his forthcoming collection, Book of Spells (Red Hen Press). Of the many things Gary has done to support his writing, he’s most grateful for the time spent reforesting clear-cuts in the Pacific Northwest where he has planted over 500,000 trees.
Molly Olguín is a queer writer, educator, and monster aficionado. She was the winner of the 2023 Grace Paley Prize and writes literary fantasy and horror. Molly teaches English and creative writing to high school students in Seattle. She will be reading from her forthcoming, “darkly brilliant” fantastical collection of short stories, The Sea Gives up the Dead (Red Hen Press).
Kristen Millares Young is a journalist, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction (Red Hen Press), named a staff pick by the Paris Review and called “whip-smart” by The Washington Post, “a brilliant debut” by The Seattle Times, and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. A former Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House, she is the editor of Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, a finalist for a 2021 Washington State Book Award. Kristen was the researcher for The New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Literary Salon with Red Hen Press, Tia Chucha Press, and Letras Latinas
2025-05-01 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
We are pleased to invite you to a special literary salon at Red Hen Press in Pasadena on Thursday, May 1 celebrating authors from Red Hen Press, Tia Chucha Press, and the Letras Latinas initiative from the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.
We welcome William Archila (S is for, The Gravedigger’s Archaeology), Adela Najarro (Variations in Blue), Brent Ameneyro (A Face Out of Clay), Malia Márquez (City of Smoke and Sea), Jose Hernandez Diaz (Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man), and Luivette Resto (Living on Islands Not Found on Maps), with Francisco Aragón (After Ruben) as our wonderful emcee.
Thursday, May 1
5:30 p.m. Reception with refreshments, tamales & light bites
6:15 p.m. Program
Red Hen Press: 1540 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Please scroll down to RSVP!

Parking: Lot space is limited; street parking is plentiful

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Francisco Aragón is a Latino poet, editor, translator, and director and founder of Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. He is the author of three books of poetry, most recently After Rubén (Red Hen Press, 2020). Previous collections include Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press, 2010) and Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005). Francisco is also the editor of the award-winning anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007). He spends the fall and spring semesters on the Notre Dame campus, where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing.
Brent Ameneyro is a poet and music artist. He is the author of the collection A Face Out of Clay (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2024) and the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023). His poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. He was the 2022-2023 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Brent currently serves as the Poetry Editor at The Los Angeles Review.
William Archila is the author of three books of poetry including S is For (Black Lawrence Press, 2025), which won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is the author of The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press, 2009), which was awarded the International Latino Book Award, and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology (Letras Latinas, 2015), which received the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. His works have been published in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and numerous other publications. William is an associate editor at Tía Chucha Press and he lives in Los Angeles.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020), Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024), The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025) and Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man (Red Hen Press, 2025), which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. He has been published in the Yale Review, the London Magazine, and in the Southern Review. Jose teaches generative workshops for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, The Writer’s Center, and elsewhere. Gigantic Sequins and Parcel have nominated him for the Pushcart Prize. Jose holds degrees in English and creative writing from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles.
Malia Márquez was born in New Mexico and grew up in New England. She holds a BFA in 3D Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art & Design and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She has worked as a restaurant server & cook, a high school art & film studies teacher, and once upon a time was co-owner of a small tortilla company. Author of This Fierce Blood (Acre Books, 2021) and City of Smoke and Sea (Red Hen Press, 2025), Malia lives with her family in Los Angeles.
Adela Najarro is the author of five poetry collections, including her latest collection Variations in Blue (Red Hen Press, 2025) through the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Collaborative. Her other works include Split Geography (Mouthfeel Press, 2015), Twice Told Over (Unsolicited Press, 2015), My Childrens (Unsolicited Press, 2017), and Volcanic Interruptions (Jamii Publishing, 2022), a chapbook featuring artwork by Janet Trenchard. She holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an M.F.A. from Vermont College, and is widely published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. Adela currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.
Luivette Resto is an award-winning poet, editor, mother, and middle school English teacher. She was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, and was proudly raised in the Bronx, New York. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow. Her books of poetry include Unfinished Portrait (2008) and Ascension (2013), both published by Tía Chucha Press, as well as Living on Islands Not Found on Maps (FlowerSong Press, 2022). Her work has been mentioned in the LA Times and Ms. Magazine, and her work has been published in North American Review. Luivette is the associate editor of Tía Chucha Press, and she serves on the boards of Women Who Submit and Beyond Baroque. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles.

Andrew Lam Book Reading at Viet Museum’s April 30th Commemoration in San Jose
2025-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Issac Newton Senter Auditorium, 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA, 95110, United States
Red Hen author Andrew Lam will join a powerful lineup of writers, artists, and performers at the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Fall of Saigon, hosted by IRCC and the Viet Museum in San Jose.
This special event reflects on tragedy of war and the triumph of courage and resilience shared by Vietnamese American community.
As award-winning Vietnamese-American writer, Andrew Lam will read his book in the event.

Stories of Refugees Resilience: An evening with author Helen Benedict
2025-04-24 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Eat Offbeat, Chelsea Market, Manhattan, NY, United States
Join us at Eat Offbeat in Chelsea Market for a powerful evening of storytelling, food, and conversation with acclaimed author Helen Benedict. Her novel, The Good Deed, explores the refugee experience through the story of Syrian and Sudanese women seeking safety in Greece, only to face new struggles in their search for justice and belonging. The book sheds light on the realities of displacement, the bonds formed between those forced from their homes, and the moral complexities of offering help.
At Eat Offbeat, we celebrate the rich culinary traditions of refugee and immigrant chefs, offering guests the opportunity to experience flavors from around the world while supporting a mission of empowerment and inclusion. What better place to host this event that brings together literature and cuisine to spark meaningful dialogue about migration, identity, and the power of community?
Your admission will include delicious appetizers and soft drinks, with the option to stay and have dinner with the author after the talk. (Dinner can be paid on site). The dinner and food will feature chef Diaa from Syria and chef Gladys from Sudan.
Eat Offbeat will be offering 20% of the proceeds of the evening to the International Refugee Assistance Project, IRAP, https://refugeerights.org.
For details and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stories-of-refugees-resilience-an-evening-with-author-helen-benedict-tickets-1312916662079?aff=oddtdtcreator

Andrew Lam Book Talk at Foothill College
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd, Los Altos Hills, CA, 94022, United States
Red Hen author Andrew Lam will speak at Foothill College on Thursday, April 24 as part of the college’s Art of Community & AANHPI programming. This event celebrates API Heritage Month and will be held from 12–1 PM in Room 5015 and also available via Zoom.
A prolific writer and journalist, Lam’s work explores the Vietnamese diaspora and the human experience. He is the author of several essay and story collections, including his most recent, Stories from the Edge of the Sea, published by Red Hen Press in March 2025.

Andrew Lam to Speak at Vietnam War Conference in Lubbock, Texas
2025-04-12 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | MCM Elegante Hotel & Suites, 801 Avenue Q, Lubbock, TX, 79401, United States
Red Hen author Andrew Lam will join the conference “1975: The End of the Vietnam War” hosted by the Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive and Institute for Peace & Conflict at Texas Tech University. He will speak at the panel “SVN Legacies: ARVN Soldiers and the Politics of Vietnamese Diasporic Cultural Memory ” on April 12.
During the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the conference will focus on the year 1975. It will approach a wide range of historical events and topics by hosting presenters who examine diplomatic, military, international, regional, social, cultural, and domestic aspects of the Vietnam War.

Panel: Session 7B – SVN Legacies: ARVN Soldiers and the Politics of Vietnamese Diasporic Cultural Memory
Presentation: Lieutenant General Lâm Quang Thi
Time: Apirl 12, 1:30pm – 3pm
Location: University Room, MCM Elegante Hotel and Suites 801 Avenue Q Lubbock, TX 79401

For more details and registrations: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/events/2025_Conference/

Viet Book Fest 2025
2025-04-06 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, 92706, United States
An all-day event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic literature.
Programs and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/viet-book-fest-2025-tickets-1253662972699

Literary Salon at Red Hen Press with Nancy Kricorian, Lory Bedikian, and Arthur Kayzakian
2025-04-03 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
We are pleased to invite you to a literary salon at Red Hen Press in Pasadena on Thursday, April 3, 2025 featuring Nancy Kricorian (Burning Heart of the World, Red Hen Press) Lory Bedikian (Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, University of Nebraska Press) and Arthur Kayzakian (The Book of Redacted Paintings, Black Lawrence Press).
Thursday, April 3
5:30 p.m. Reception with refreshments & light hors d’oeuvres
6:15 p.m. Program
Red Hen Press: 1540 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Lory Bedikian is the author of The Book of Lamenting, which won the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and her latest collection Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards.
Arthur Kayzakian is the winner of the inaugural 2021 Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series for his collection The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was also a finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.
Nancy Kricorian is the author of four novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was translated into seven languages, was adapted as a play, and has been continuously in print since 1998. Her new novel, The Burning Heart of the World, about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, will be published in April 2025.

Kim Stafford at Marin Poetry Center
2024-11-12 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Marin Poetry Center, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, United States
Time TBD. Information to come.
Additional poetry by Tiffany Midge.

Author Event! Alana Biden Lytle in conversation with Carleton Eastlake at Zibby’s Bookshop
2024-08-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zibby’s Bookshop, 1113 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, 90403, United States
Zibby’s Bookshop is excited to host Alana Biden Lytle as she celebrates the launch of MAN’S BEST FRIEND. Alana will be joined in conversation by Carleton Eastlake!
About the book:
A failed actress must decide how much she will give up—and what lies she will overlook—in order to live a life of luxury, in this irresistibly suspenseful and slightly surreal debut that is The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Nightbitch.

Red Hen Press Author Panel: DC Frost, Kate Gale and EP Tuazon
2024-07-21 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Flintridge Books, 858 Foothill Blvd. La Canada, Flintridge, CA, 91011, United States
A Punishing Breed by DC Frost, published by Canis Major Books, a division of Red Hen Books,
A Punishing Breed, first in a series of mystery novels, features Latino Detective DJ Arias who pursues a murder investigation at a small private liberal arts college nestled in the heart of Los Angeles. The detective and his partner, Bobby Talbot, discover buried secrets and past misdeeds that overshadow an institution promising social justice, transparency and equity. DJ Arias fights against his own troubled history with the college, his partner, and a failed marriage. Along the way, he finds a modicum of salvation with a murdered man’s dog he names Evidence.
D.C. Frost Biography: Denise Cecelia Frost is a second-generation Angelino. For almost twenty years, she has worked as a fundraiser for a small private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, and before that PBS and Variety. Denise has published several literary fiction short stories in journals including UCLA’s Westword. She lives in Los Angeles with her family including three rescue dogs who keep life interesting.

Kim Stafford presents As the Sky Begins to Change
2024-07-18 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Paulina Springs Books, 252 W Hood Ave, Sisters, OR, 97759, United States
As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin.
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.
“Kim Stafford is a priest and poet, songwriter and philosopher. Each of these meticulously crafted poems offers the ability to see our interconnected world with a tender, resilient heart that only grows stronger over time. You will come to the book like that lucky raccoon who finds a plum tree in one of the early poems, feasting until you are “bandit happy, lusty gusto, shaky elbow, roly poly / on your side helpless with joy.” —James Crews, author of Kindness Will Save the World
Kim Stafford will be joined by Beth Wood, local poet and songwriter who will share a few songs and poems inspired by Stafford’s work.

An Evening with DC Frost and Kate Gale
2024-06-25 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
A Punishing Breed, first in a series of mystery novels, features Latino Detective DJ Arias who pursues a murder investigation at a small private liberal arts college nestled in the heart of Los Angeles. The detective and his partner, Bobby Talbot, discover buried secrets and past misdeeds that overshadow an institution promising social justice, transparency and equity. DJ Arias fights against his own troubled history with the college, his partner, and a failed marriage. Along the way, he finds a modicum of salvation with a murdered man’s dog he names Evidence.
Under a Neon Sun by Kate Gale
Unable to afford rent, Mia—a community college student—lives out of her car, cleaning houses of the well-to-do in the LA area to meet her shoestring budget. Then Covid hits and everything changes.
For people living in houses and apartments, with stay-at-home jobs, the pandemic was inconvenient. For Mia and her fellow housekeeper friends—all living in their cars—the pandemic destroys the source of their frugal income.
Fortunately, gutsy, funny Mia is a determined survivor. After weeks of cutting her limited spending even further, missing meals along the way, her wealthy employers become desperate for her services again. This time, she’s determined not to let them take advantage of her as they have in the past. Her newfound confidence gives her new hope, until she discovers a dead body in a room she was assigned to clean. Sally Rooney meets Elizabeth Strout in this gripping page turner debut novel.

Kim Stafford at Elliott Bay Book Company
2024-06-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Poet Kim Stafford once again visits the store from Portland for the Seattle launch of his latest collection. As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin.
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.

Kim Stafford at Village Books
2024-06-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.

Phuong T. Vuong and Douglas Manuel at Skylight Books
2024-06-07 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
Join us for an evening of poetry celebrating Red Hen Press and Alice James Books!
Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and essayist who cannot stop thinking about language, memory, and migration. She is the author of The House I Inherit (Finishing Line, 2019). Her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins, and elsewhere. Hailing from Oakland, by way of Hue, Viet Nam, Phuong is currently a Ph.D. student in Literature and a James K. Binder Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, situated on unceded Kumeyaay land.
Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana and now resides in Long Beach, California. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MFA in poetry from Butler University, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. His first collection of poems, Testify, won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for poetry, and his poems and essays can be found in numerous literary journals, magazines, and websites, most recently Zyzzyva, Pleiades, and the New Orleans Review. He has traveled to Egypt and Eritrea with The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program to teach poetry. A recipient of the Dana Gioia Poetry Award and a fellowship from the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts, he is a Bayard Rustin Fellow at Whittier College and teaches at Spalding University’s low-res MFA program.

LIVE ON ZOOM: E.P. Tuazon, Eunice Hong and more at Antioch University’s Lit Up Reading Series
2024-06-05 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We’ve revived Antioch University Los Angeles’s Lit Up Reading Series. We have an amazing lineup. June 5th, 6:00 p.m. Zoom. Dm or email me (dlott@antioch.edu) for the link. Here are our readers:
Jack Allison
Valentina Gnup
Sean Enfield
E.P. Tuazon
Eunice Hong

As the Sky Begins to Change: a reading with Kim Stafford
2024-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bishop & Wilde, 2601 NW Thurman, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
As the Sky Begins to Change: a reading with Kim Stafford
Thursday, May 30, 2024
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
Bishop & Wilde
2601 NW Thurman Portland United States

E.P. Tuazon at Costa Mesa-Donald Dungan Library
2024-05-23 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Costa Mesa-Donald Dungan Library, 1855 Park Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627, United States
E.P. Tuazon is a Filipino American writer from Los Angeles. They have work in several publications such as The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Peatsmoke, and Five South. Their work was chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2022 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. They are currently a member of Advintage Press and The Blank Page Writing Club at The Open Book, Canyon Country. In their spare time, they like to go to Filipino seafood markets to gossip with the crabs.
