The Australian features David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: February 6, 2025
The Australian showcases David Mason’s poem EENSY.
News & Reviews
News:
KCBX features Yang Huang, author of OASIS
Date: February 4, 2025
Berkeley, California based author Yang Huang shares tales of growing up in China, post cultural revolution. And how, on the heels of the Tiananmen Square protests, she was empowered to […]
International Armenian Literary Alliance chooses Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD in its Literary Lights series
Date: February 4, 2025
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian is part of this year’s Literary Lights series by the International Armenian Literary Alliance.
The New York Times spotlights Maria Tallchief, mother of BLOOD WOLF MOON author Elise Paschen
Date: February 4, 2025
The New York Times honors Native American ballet dancer Maria Tallchief and features lines from her daughter, poet Elise Paschen.
VOA Africa podcast features Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: February 3, 2025
Ghanaian American writer Esinam Bediako discusses her new novel, Blood on the Brain, a tale that follows Akosua, a young woman recovering from a concussion.
The Georgia Review features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
The Georgia Review features the essay “Mobius: A Meditation on Art and Science” by Alison Hawthorne Deming in its Winter 2024 issue.
Prairie Schooner features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
Prairie Schooner features Alison Hawthorne Deming’s essay “The Eye of Water” in its recent issue.
Electric Literature reveals the cover of BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich
Date: January 29, 2025
Electric Literature reveals the cover of Bind Me Tighter Still by Lara Ehrlich, which will be published by Red Hen Press in September, 2025. The design celebrates otherworldly beauty and […]
Omaha Magazine features Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: January 28, 2025
Omaha Magazine features an interview with Elom K. Akoto, shearing his journey from Togo to the U.S., his experiences as an immigrant, and the inspiration behind his debut novel, which […]
Shelf Awareness interviews Kim Dower, author of WHAT SHE WANTS
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 […]
Reviews:
23 Must-Read Books that Will Transform How You Think about Food and the World
Date: October 10, 2023
This fall, Food Tank is recommending 23 books that can broaden and deepen everyone’s understanding of food systems and the power of storytelling. Books like Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper, Sarah Lohman’s Endangered Eating, […]
Jaya Savige at Times Literary Supplement calls PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason “a home-seeking voice, lured by the Pacific”
Date: September 25, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason’s eighth collection of poems, we find the former Poet Laureate of Colorado newly settled in Tasmania, weighing the “titanic volumes of air” between “here and Patagonia” […]
Vivian Wagner reviews Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: September 20, 2023
What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and […]
Juliana Lamy’s debut short-story collection YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND featured in Daily Kos!
Date: September 20, 2023
The Bookgirl Community in the Daily Kos highlights key takeaways from Juliana Lamy’s first short-story collection, You Were Watching from the Sand, published by Red Hen Press this September! Read […]
Kirkus Reviews calls Lisa C. Krueger’s FLORIOGRAPHY CHILD “a poignant and bittersweet poetry collection about a mother’s devotion.”
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
The New York Journal of Books calls Laila Halaby’s memoir, THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS, “deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound.”
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Soapberry Review features Pete Hsu’s IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME!
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
The Jewish Book Council reviews Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
The Bite and the Charm: A Review of Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES by Good River Review
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
The Markaz Review calls Laila Halaby’s memoir THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS “fearlessly authentic,” “vulnerable,” and “haunting.”
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]