Date: January 28, 2025
Shelf Awareness interviewed Kim Dower to discuss her career highlights, share some intriguing gossip, explore what has sustained her over the years, and learn how she has merged her roles […]
Date: January 21, 2025
Jenny Factor, acclaimed poet and Beverly Hills native, shares her journey from a unique childhood to Harvard and beyond. In this compelling conversation, she reflects on her lifelong passion for […]
Date: January 21, 2025
In this episode of SoCal Poets in Conversation, Elena Karina Byrne and Kim Dower, who have very different poetic styles, reflect on the themes they have in common, including “longing,” […]
Date: January 21, 2025
“In A Professional Lola, a joyful, weird, and eclectic collection of short stories from Grace Paley award winner E.P. Tuazon, there is an intimacy that makes you, the reader, feel […]
Date: December 10, 2024
Huge thanks to the editors at Brittle Paper for inclusion in this incredible list!
Date: December 5, 2024
Red Hen Press is thrilled to welcome nine new members to our Executive Board, whose diverse range of expertise in marketing, branding, and governance will help advance the core values […]
Date: December 3, 2024
Date: December 3, 2024
THE FIRST BOOK: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The Author: Esinam Bediako | Instagram: @esi_the_lurker The Book: Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024) The Elevator Pitch: Can a 24-year-old Ghanaian American woman outrun a breakup, […]
Date: November 26, 2024
Esinam Bediako is remarkably self-assured in this debut novel; it’s the kind of funny, compassionate book you want your friends to read so you can talk about it with someone […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Didi Jackson: On Love Stories, Migraines, Being Ever-Present on the Page, and Her Poetry Collection, ‘My Infinity’ Nov 19 Written By Brittany Ackerman Four months postpartum, I stood inside the home […]
Date: June 30, 2020
This is a powerful story of political activism, family betrayal, allegiance and love. When two sisters get arrested during a Vietnam War protest in 1968, they must decide where their […]
Date: June 30, 2020
Many readers of this review may or may not be aware of the rasa theory, but it is maintained that classic works of literature created within the boundaries of what is today […]
Date: June 26, 2020
I’ve never lived in New York City, though I’ve always loved it from afar. Visits to friends in Brooklyn, a few work jaunts into Manhattan, a research trip one summer […]
Date: June 5, 2020
Reading poet Elizabeth Bradfield’s latest collection, Toward Antarctica: An Exploration, may not be as dramatic as actually visiting the continent, but it will likely be as close as many of us will get. Thanks […]
Date: June 4, 2020
Mia Heavener, now living in Anchorage, grew up fishing in Bristol Bay, where she absorbed stories her mother and other women told between tides and over tea. Her lovely debut […]
Date: June 4, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
