Date: November 19, 2024
Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and […]
Date: November 19, 2024
For our fifth episode of S3 of There She Goes, we’re proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adriana is […]
Date: November 14, 2024
When Esinam Bediako submitted the manuscript for her debut novel, “Blood on the Brain,” for consideration for the Ann Petry Award, she didn’t think she’d be in the running for the […]
Date: November 14, 2024
Wa-zha’-zhe, name of the Osage tribe . . . who came from the stars.—“The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis LaFlesche” […]
Date: November 5, 2024
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, […]
Date: October 31, 2024
In “Witness,” you allude to the martyr St. Priscilla. Other poems take up women mystics like Hilma af Klint and the other members of De Fem, who practiced mysticism. The […]
Date: October 31, 2024
I have a little something special to add to the newsletter today! A brief interview with Aliah Wright, author of the recently published Now You Owe Me from Red Hen Press. 1. What […]
Date: October 22, 2024
I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast […]
Date: October 10, 2024
Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, falls and bangs her head, she has too […]
Date: October 10, 2024
Living Writers: Peggy Shumaker Expands Human Perception in ‘Cairn: New and Selected Poems’ Olivia Miller, Assistant Arts & Features Editor • October 4, 2024 Peggy Shumaker, the most recent author featured in Colgate […]
Date: October 26, 2026
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, A Punishing Breed and this second book in the Detective DJ Arias series. This second book leans even more strongly into […]
Date: October 20, 2026
In this lyrical memoir-in-essays, novelist Young (Subduction) considers matrilineal legacy, the trauma inflicted upon feminine bodies, and what it means to be a woman. As a child in Florida with […]
Date: October 19, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Date: October 19, 2026
A delightful aspect of historical fiction is the way the present gives way to the past, shifting our knowledge of the modern world into what it once was. In Marivi […]
Date: October 19, 2026
In 2003, the United States attacked Iraq, ostensibly to rid the country of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The war destabilized the Middle East and resulted in Hussein’s death […]
Date: October 15, 2026
In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story […]
Date: October 7, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Date: October 1, 2026
Date: October 1, 2026
In this hands-on manifesto, Ramirez, host of The Kitchen Activist podcast and author of Eat Less Water, encourages readers to prepare meals in ways that lower food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Explaining that […]
Date: October 1, 2026
The journey into The Opposites Game enters the sometime surreal, sometime witty, sometime irreverent world of Brendan Constantine. All is not joy as the dark lays just under the thinly veiled poems […]
