Lansing State Journal celebrates AAPI Heritage Month with SECRET HARVESTS by David Mas Masumoto
Date: May 2, 2024
Lansing State Journal lists SECRET HARVESTS as one of 20 books to honor AAPI Heritage Month. Check out the full list below!
News & Reviews
News:
Amy Shearn discusses unplugging, being a woman writer, DEAR EDNA SLOANE, and more in LitHub interview!
Date: May 1, 2024
Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not […]
THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS by Laila Halaby featured on a Reading List for Arab American Heritage Month 2024 from CLMP
Date: April 30, 2024
For Arab American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of April, we asked our member magazines and presses to share with us some of the work by Arab American […]
UNDER A FUTURE SKY author Brynn Saito in conversation with The Adroit Journal
Date: April 30, 2024
Brynn Saito’s third book of poems, Under a Future Sky, was published in August 2023 by Red Hen Press. A 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Brynn is the […]
DEAR EDNA SLOANE author Amy Shearn interviewed by The Campaign for the American Reader
Date: April 30, 2024
Q&A with Amy Shearn From my Q&A with Amy Shearn, author of Dear Edna Sloane: How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think […]
Must-Read Essay by Susan Rich, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now” featured in Solstice Magazine
Date: April 29, 2024
Thank you to Solstice Magazine for publishing Susan Rich’s powerful essay on her experience with coerced abortion and how writing her latest collection of poems helped her heal.
Chicago Review of Books Welcomes DEAR EDNA SLOANE’S Amy Shearn as Resident Author
Date: April 25, 2024
Follow along as Amy Shearn posts a photo on Chicago Review of Books’ Instagram page every day leading up to the release of DEAR EDNA SLOANE on April 30.
DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE author and musician Peter Ulrich returns to the Curious Creatures Podcast for part 2
Date: April 23, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘The Need and The Desire to Hold Things Together!’
The Campaign for the American reader interviews THE GOOD DEED author Helen Benedict
Date: April 22, 2024
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think titles are of utmost importance to the writer and the reader. For the writer, they […]
BLUE ATLAS author Susan Rich interviewed by Solstice Literary Magazine
Date: April 22, 2024
Susan Rich’s masterful collection, Blue Atlas, (Red Hen Press, April 2, 2024) is a physical and emotional travelogue through a “land of deferred decisions.” In this collection, the reader is […]
Reviews:
BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich reviewed in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Date: October 7, 2025
With nods to “The Little Mermaid,” Ehrlich’s lovely sophomore outing (after Animal Wife) again probes themes of womanhood and monstrosity. Ceto, a siren and hunter of men, yearns to break the […]
Midwest Book Review places Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS on their September 2025 Bookshelf
Date: September 30, 2025
This is the debut novel written by author Jade Shyback. I believe this is the first book in the new young adult series. While the focus may be young adult, […]
A Review of Alison Hawthorne Deming: To Make the Broken Whole
Date: September 18, 2025
I finished Alison Hawthorne Deming’s latest poetry collection, Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower, and sat quietly absorbing it, stunned by its power. Deming is a writer whose work in […]
TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: September 16, 2025
Nào (The Six Tons of Water) and Hoàng (Underneath) join forces for a lyrical bilingual story collection. Each tale is presented three times, first in a combination of English and […]
“Nimbly probes the corporeal, familial, and flighted,” West Trade Review on M. Soledad Caballero’s FLIGHT PLAN
Date: September 9, 2025
M. Soledad Caballero’s Flight Plan spans geographies both physical and psychological—from cells to continents, from quotidian to unusual, from grounded to soaring. Intertwining seemingly dissimilar topical threads that include cancer, a […]
Review of Cai Emmons’s THE BELLS featured in Kirkus Reviews
Date: September 2, 2025
An immersive psychological portrait of one man’s battle with lifelong anger and guilt. A young man’s troubles follow him after he trades his spiritual calling for life as a teacher. […]
A Review of Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL featured in Booklist
Date: August 28, 2025
Ehrlich, the author of the story collection Animal Wife (2020) presents a short and disturbing novel. Ceto is the cruel taskmaster of the sirens, women who are the main attraction in Sirenland, […]
Don’t let your child get the “summer slide”: TREE SPIRITS by Louise Wannier Reviewed in She Scribes
Date: August 7, 2025
This is not a reading book, however, it does encourage children to use their imaginations and “think outside the box.” That skill will help them later in life with critical […]
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO by Tom Lutz Featured in Publishers Weekly
Date: August 5, 2025
Troubled lives intersect in the Indian Ocean with explosive results in Lutz’s tantalizing follow-up to Born Slippy. Frank Baltimore worked in construction until one of his employees started laundering money and […]
Kirkus Reviews THE RE IN REFUGE by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Date: August 4, 2025
A poignant and profoundly relevant examination of society’s safe places. In this essay collection, Kalfopoulou explores the notion of refuge in all its varied facets. “Embedded in the word refugee […]