April Ossmann interviewed on the Derate the Hate podcast!
Date: March 3, 2026
April Ossmann discusses poetry collection, WE with Derate the Hate podcast.
News & Reviews
News:
Amy Pence’s YELLOW listed on Bookstr!
Date: March 3, 2026
Yellow is a slow-bloom speculative novel and quietly cosmic. It’s a book about how long childhood wonders and wounds can linger, how the universe keeps whispering even when we stop […]
Molly McCloy interviewed on The ARTWIFE Podcast!
Date: March 3, 2026
Molly McCloy discusses her upcoming memoir, NINE GRUDGES: THE SPITEFUL ORIGINS OF THE HAPPIEST DYKE ON EARTH with Hannah Harlee.
Amy Pence’s YELLOW listed in Deep South Magazine!
Date: March 3, 2026
It’s 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab’s launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK listed in the New York Post!
Date: February 24, 2026
This satirical literary thriller has shades of Joan Didion and Bret Easton Ellis. A 19-year-old NYU dropout returns home to Brentwood to laze about and enjoy popping prescription pills. But […]
Lily Hoang and Vi Khi Nao discuss TIMBER & LUA with Electric Lit!
Date: February 17, 2026
With Nào and Hoàng’s signature styles of experimentation blending together, the resulting text is a cross narrative exploration of linguistic points that extract worlds populated by squids who are stars, […]
Amy Pence’s YELLOW Listed One of 27 Indie Releases to Add to Your 2026 TBR List by OC Register
Date: February 11, 2026
What It’s About: Pasadena press Red Hen was established in 1994, and has published over 550 books since then. One of this year’s releases is this novel, set in 1973 Louisiana, about […]
Listen to Kim Dower on the Getting Work to Work podcast!
Date: February 10, 2026
There’s a lot that holds us back as creative individuals, but today’s guest thinks one question is the death of our creativity: who cares? The work begins when you shift […]
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL listed in Library Journal’s Prepub Alert Preview!
Date: February 4, 2026
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL revisits struggling newlyweds traveling from Oregon to California in 1875.
Listen to Andrew Lam on The Listen & Be Heard Hour podcast!
Date: February 4, 2026
Andrew Lam reads Grandma’s Tales, from Watermark, and talks with Martha about his life now after journalism.
Reviews:
JANE OF BATTERY PARK Reviewed by Third Coast Review
Date: September 8, 2021
Everything about Jane of Battery Park is unexpected, precarious, paranoid, and quirky. Viner’s dialogue is at once banal, punchy, and self-aware, with as many laugh-out-loud moments as kick-in-the-gut ones.
GLORIOUS BOY by Aimee Liu reviewed by La viduité
Date: September 7, 2021
Decode the savagery of silence, the language of separation and guilt, also deceive that of the enemy. A rather classic novel in its form, in its informed reconstruction of a little-known […]
EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY reviewed in The Anchorage Daily News!
Date: September 7, 2021
In her third book of poetry, Fairbanksan Nicole Stellon O’Donnell firmly establishes herself as both a remarkable artist and a commentator on the role of poet.
NEW MOONS, our upcoming anthology featuring Muslim-American writers, was featured in NewPages List of New and Noteworthy Books!
Date: August 26, 2021
A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims. From the Introduction: “The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions […]
Review of THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez from Latino Stories!
Date: August 24, 2021
Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed by On The Seawall!
Date: August 24, 2021
This July, Cuba erupted into its widest protests in a generation. News reports credit food and medicine shortages and summer power outages as the catalysts for the demonstrations which have […]
Starred review given to Nicole Stellon’s book EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY!
Date: August 23, 2021
In her inviting third poetry collection, Everything Never Comes Your Way, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (You Are No Longer in Trouble) muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.” The […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner gets reviewed by Foreword!
Date: August 19, 2021
A chance encounter changes the trajectory of two lives in Jaye Viner’s novel Jane of Battery Park. Eight years ago, Jane and Daniel met and connected in Battery Park. She saw […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner reviewed in the Midwest Book Review!
Date: August 11, 2021
Read the glowing review here!
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
Date: July 21, 2021
Check out the full list here!