Red Hen Press at Downtown LA
Date: August 17, 2015
Join Red Hen Press for their new special reading series, Fluid. Events will take place in Downtown LA and the first installment of this series will be at The Edison […]
News & Reviews
News:
Percival Everett Named Guggenheim Fellow!
Date: July 30, 2015
Renowned Red Hen poet Percival Everett was recently named one of three Guggenheim Fellows for 2015!
Gary Dop interviewed by Midwest Gothic!
Date: June 1, 2015
Red Hen author, Gary Dop, shares with Midwest Gothic about his thoughts on his writing process, his new book book of poems (Father, Child, Water) and his connection to the […]
Red Hen author, Elissa Washuta, has a new book available on June 16!
Date: May 20, 2015
Elissa Washuta’s Starvation Mode: A Memoir of Food, Consumption, and Control, will be available on June 16. Washuta recounts her struggle for culinary control, and presents the guidelines she followed […]
Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol has an essay published in Cleaver Magazine!
Date: May 11, 2015
Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol wrote an essay for Cleaver Magazine, in which she discusses of writing varied perspectives and crossing boundaries in fiction in her novel, On Hurricane Island. […]
Douglas Kearney is a California Book Award Finalist!
Date: April 28, 2015
Yesterday, The Commonwealth Club announced the finalists of this year's California Book Awards, and we are delighted that Douglas Kearney's poetry collection, Patter, is a finalist for the poetry award! […]
Ellen Meeropol interviewed by Linda K. Sienkiewicz!
Date: April 7, 2015
Recently, Linda K. Sienkiewicz made a blog post in which she talked with Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol about Ellen's new novel, On Hurricane Island. The two discussed Ellen's writing […]
Kansas City Star lists William Trowbridge’s Put This On, Please as 2014 staff favorite!
Date: March 20, 2015
Recently, The Kansas City Star put out their list of 100 staff favorites from 2014 and Red Hen author William Trowbridge's Put This On, Please made the cut! The collection […]
Cynthia Hogue interviewed by Periodico de Poesia!
Date: March 11, 2015
Recently, Mexican poetry journal Periodico de Poesia conducted an interview with Red Hen author Cynthia Hogue in which they discussed, among other things, the importance of poetry's cultural work in […]
Poets & Writers showcases William Archila’s talk about immigrant life
Date: February 23, 2015
William Archila speaks with author Mariano Zaro about his early influences and how growing up as an immigrant in the United States has made an impact on his writing. Watch
Reviews:
Susan Campbell’s THIS FAR NORTH receives advanced praise from Foreword Reviews!
Date: June 2, 2026
What wilderness does best, it does in Alaska. With her temporal gaze fixed on how immense cold and wind , water and time weather a virginal northern landscape, Susan Campbell’s […]
Matt Witt’s Memorial Day Radio Review of Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE
Date: May 28, 2026
“War is never over, even when the fighting stops […] THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE brings that reality to life.”
Khanh Ha’s THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER reviewed by Christopher Connor!
Date: May 28, 2026
It’s important to understand what this novel is, and conversely, what it is not. It does not sanitize the treatment of prisoners with cheerful escape plots. While Khang forms genuine […]
North American Review Raves about Khanh Ha’s AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER
Date: May 28, 2026
The past creeps in and settles like a chill mist upon the reader while experiencing Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester. Yet a sharp little ringing, a tiny bell, […]
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL Received a Kirkus Review!
Date: May 21, 2026
Fisk’s novel in verse offers a pastoral meditation on American frontier life that explores domesticity, self-discovery, and nature. Newlyweds and aspiring homesteaders Phoebe and Miles Imlay travel for 23 days […]
Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON Reviewed by Red Inc. Lit Mag!
Date: May 14, 2026
Elise Paschen’s sixth book of poetry, Blood Wolf Moon, weaves together heritage, language and personal narrative into a deeply moving, thoughtful collection of poems. “I was/ born in the month […]
William Archila’s CANICULA / DOG DAYS reviewed in West Trade Review!
Date: May 5, 2026
William Archila’s first two collections The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press, 2009) and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology (Red Hen Press, 2015), each, in their own way, translate the U.S. immigrant experience through […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE reviewed by A Few More Words!
Date: April 28, 2026
As we continue to live through a 24-hour news cycle that moves at breakneck speed from one international conflict to the next, the Iraq War can feel like a distant […]
Khanh Ha’s THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER was awarded the five-starred Golden Quill Read from BookViral Reviews!
Date: April 15, 2026
Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is not a novel that seeks to comfort its reader. Instead, it draws you into a world stripped of illusion, where survival […]
Molly Fisk receives first review of WALKING WHEEL from West Trade Review!
Date: April 15, 2026
Molly Fisk takes up the challenge with, Walking Wheel, a narrative suite from the decorated California poet which functions as a novel-in-verse. Set in the frontier country of the California-Oregon […]