San Diego Public Library sits down with TAXI DANCER author Marivi Soliven!
Date: September 28, 2026
Tune in to hear Marivi share her story and experiences as a naturalized American citizen, and learn more about the writer behind TAXI DANCER.
News & Reviews
News:
Abrea Armstrong’s FERRY TALES Featured in WS Chronicle
Date: September 28, 2026
Abrea Armstrong has helped Winston-Salem preserve and tell its Black history. Now, the hometown writer is introducing a novel about a Black woman searching across the Atlantic for a fuller […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Jedd Beaudoin for an Into Music podcast episode!
Date: September 17, 2026
Amy Speace is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, who recently released her first collection of poems, The Cardinals, via Red Hen Press. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself at a number […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, featured on Cincy Groove
Date: September 17, 2026
Award-winning singer/songwriter + poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals available Tuesday, September 1 published by Red Hen Press, with the accompanying single “Days […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Matt Conner for Analogue
Date: September 17, 2026
Little made sense, on paper, about a folk singer in her 50s with a young child and a touring lifestyle pivoting to chase an MFA—and specifically to study a form […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, featured on Broadway World!
Date: September 17, 2026
Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is set to release her debut poetry collection THE CARDINALS on September 1 through Red Hen Press, alongside a companion single titled ‘Days of Letting […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, featured on Jrodconcerts: The Podcast!
Date: September 17, 2026
Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, interviewed by Robert Pela for Phoenix Magazine “Grudge Match”
Date: September 17, 2026
Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, interviewed by CQ Quintana for Bomb Magazine
Date: September 17, 2026
On the cusp of Molly McCloy’s 1993 college graduation, she wrote her father a letter, asking him to apologize for nine instances of mental, verbal, and physical trauma. In her […]
Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, interviewed by Eric Aldrich for Full Stop
Date: September 17, 2026
Molly McCloy’s new memoir, Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth, won the 2023 Book Pipeline “Unpublished” Award and the 2023 Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press. […]
Reviews:
Adrianne Kalfopoulou THE RE IN REFUGE, reviewed in World Literature Today!
Date: March 12, 2026
At the heart of Adrianne Kalfopoulou’s The re in refuge is the experience of crossing borders—primarily international, cultural, and linguistic but also erotic, psychological, and intellectual, among others. A Greek […]
David Mason’s COLD FIRE receives early praise in Poetry Corner!
Date: March 3, 2026
Each line is a steady and reassuring four beats in length, filled with words that help move the story along.
Helen Benedict’s upcoming novel, THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE, reviewed by Booklist!
Date: February 18, 2026
Full review to come March 1! “The characters’ journeys are candid and vulnerable, rendering a pertinent, rich portrait of displaced lives reshaped by conflict and its enduring consequences.” —Booklist
Amy Pence’s YELLOW reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
Date: February 11, 2026
Mysticism and science merge in the story of a Louisiana artist. Pence tells her story in language on the border between poetic and precious.
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Thirsty Caterpillar
Date: February 3, 2026
This week’s Thirst Quencher doesn’t tiptoe, it kicks the door in. Kill Dick by Luke Goebel is dark, unsettling, and unexpectedly funny, driven by characters and ideas that refuse to […]
Abi Pollokoff’s NIGHT MYTHSᐧᐧBEFORE THE BODY reviewed by West Trade Review
Date: February 3, 2026
Abi Pollokoff’s debut poetry collection night myths • • before the body, released this year from Red Hen Press with much advanced praise, is so deft in execution, so consistent […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Publishers Weekly
Date: February 3, 2026
The daughter of a pharmaceutical executive gets ensnared in criminal mischief in this ambitious blend of social satire and sunshine noir from Goebel (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours). […]
THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE by Helen Benedict gets a raving review!
Date: January 27, 2026
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE (2026) completes her Iraq war trilogy, that began with SAND QUEEN (2011) and was followed by WOLF SEASON (2017). But the new book is actually […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
Date: January 27, 2026
“…Shot through with the sort of pseudo-profundity endemic to youthful privilege, Susie’s rambling, terminally jaundiced narrative paints a darkly surreal Lynch- and Kubrick-inspired portrait of LA.”
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Foreword Reviews
Date: January 21, 2026
Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel Kill Dick parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of […]