Brookline Booksmith in discussion with Lara Ehrlich on BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: October 7, 2025
News & Reviews
News:
Pasadena Now: Ron Koertge to read from his latest collection PANDORA’A KITCHEN
Date: September 30, 2025
When Ron Koertge writes about Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula’s wives in the same poetry collection, he’s creating the unexpected literary terrain that has defined his decades-long career. The longtime […]
Q&A with Louise Wannier on TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD
Date: September 30, 2025
Louise Wannier is the author and photographer of the new children’s picture book Tree Spirits Around the World. She also has created the book Tree Spirits. She is an artist […]
Writer’s Digest on Louise Wannier and Photography in TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD
Date: September 30, 2025
Author, artist, and creative entrepreneur Louise Wannier shares how photography led her to write a children’s book about tree spirits. My years behind the camera taught me to notice the […]
David Eggleton’s BREATHING SPACE featured in The Spinoff
Date: September 30, 2025
A new poem by David Eggleton, whose new book Lifting the Island was published this week by Red Hen Press. Breathing Space Before the gerontocracy get to me,and put me in a […]
Nancy Kricorian named in the Wallpaper USA 400 List for Voices Defining Creative America
Date: September 16, 2025
The Wallpaper* USA 400 celebrates Creative America in all its dazzling breadth and diversity. Our snapshot of the people who are shaping the country’s creative landscape in 2025 spans community builders, […]
Allison Joseph in The Southern Illinoisan: “Poetry is for everybody”
Date: September 16, 2025
CARBONDALE — Local poet and SIU professor Allison Joseph recently released a collection of poems Dwelling, which she said is “about home and how we find home, how home is in […]
Eunice Hong Interviews with Singapore Unbound on MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 16, 2025
Eunice Hong’s debut novel, Memento Mori, selected by Aimee Liu as a Red Hen Press Fiction Award Winner, follows an unnamed Korean narrator through mythology, memory loss, and numerous personal tragedies. […]
Chicago Review Interviews Lara Ehrlich on BIND ME TIGHTER: “Alluring Mermaids and Raging Sirens”
Date: September 9, 2025
When my coworker casually mentioned working as a mermaid at a tiki bar out west, I was flabbergasted and mesmerized. So when I heard about Lara Ehrlich’s Bind Me Tighter Still, […]
Majid Naficy Reads His Works LIVE at the Santa Monica Library
Date: September 4, 2025
The Red Hen Press poet, Majid Naficy recently read a few of his works at the Santa Monica Library!
Reviews:
Madeleine Nakamura receives a five star review of “Cursebreakers” from AuthorLink.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016. All of the drama in this […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: August 17, 2023
A Plucked Zither is Phuong T. Vuong’s sophomore poetry collection. Vuong’s poems draw upon her experience as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American raised in Oakland, California, and echo the familiar themes […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS receives STARRED Book Review from Independent Book Review!
Date: August 15, 2023
CURSEBREAKERS by Madeleine Nakamura is a novel as electric as the lightning-bolt magic its protagonist wields, filled with curses, destruction, and piercing heartache. Sometimes vicious and violent; all times spectacular […]
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER receives stellar review on Poetry Foundation!
Date: August 10, 2023
“Poems like these are as two-sided as Vuong’s title instrument: a zither plucked and plucked, played upon and snatched away. For every touch of warmth and musicality, she admits something […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS earns a starred review in Kirkus!
Date: August 8, 2023
“Nakamura’s treatment is nuanced and thoughtful, avoiding a veritable minefield of harmful stereotypes to deliver genuine characters with heart…A tightly plotted conspiracy novel that blends seamlessly with its superbly developed […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS reviewed by Booklist!
Date: July 27, 2023
“…the intimate representation of bipolar disease and addiction, the normalization of queer characters, and the nuanced depiction of aromantic male-female friendship make this an exciting read.” The full review will […]
Richard & Sally Price review Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND for the New West Indian Guide!
Date: July 27, 2023
You Were Watching from the Sand The debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised, Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life and dreams in Miami’s Haitian community. Gritty, […]
Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS featured in July issue of Midwest Book Review!
Date: July 13, 2023
Synopsis: On the eve of Earth’s collapse, young Marisol Blaise is taken to live on an underwater ‘mersation’ known as Aqueous with parents not her own. There, she must compete […]
Francesca Bell’s translation of WHOEVER DROWNED HERE receives starred review in Kirkus!
Date: July 12, 2023
Translator Bell offers a long-overdue introduction of German poet Sessner to English-speaking readers…Over the course of this collection, Sessner’s inclination toward enjambment and sparse use of stanzas encourage readers to […]
Anchorage Daily News recommends H. Warren’s BINDED!
Date: July 10, 2023
This debut collection by Fairbanks poet and musician Warren presents the reality of living as a nonbinary person, with poems responding to childhood confusions, to societal pressures and cruelties, and […]