Date: June 4, 2025
Elise Paschen’s sixth poetry collection, “Blood Wolf Moon” explores the storylines of her Osage heritage. The core of the book takes on “The Reign of Terror,” when white outsiders murdered […]
Date: May 29, 2025
When Red Hen Press began 30 years ago, cofounder Kate Gale recounted that Los Angeles’ literary scene was crumbling. “There were no [Master of Fine Arts] programs, bookstores were closing, […]
Date: May 20, 2025
Thank you to the New York Times for a beautiful obituary for our dear Nahid Rachlin, who passed away on April 30, 2025. We’re honored to have been a part […]
Date: May 20, 2025
On May 8, Nancy Kricorian discussed and read from her latest book, “The Burning Heart of the World” at Roeliff Jansen Community Library in Hillsdale, New York. Kricorian was interviewed […]
Date: May 20, 2025
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón welcomes back poet Adela Najarro to discuss her powerful new collection, Variations in Blue, published by Red Hen Press. With warmth, candor, and insight, Najarro […]
Date: May 14, 2025
Mekong Review has published a powerful profile of Andrew Lam in its latest issue. Written by Connla Stokes, this feature highlights Lam’s journey from fleeing Vietnam in 1975 to becoming […]
Date: May 13, 2025
LibraryThing is pleased to sit down this month with novelist Nancy Kricorian, whose work explores the experiences of the post-genocide Armenian diaspora. Her debut novel, Zabelle, published in 1998, has been translated […]
Date: May 7, 2025
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian is featured in Publishers Weekly. The reviewer highlights this work as a “an impactful story of trauma”.
Date: May 7, 2025
In a recent interview with Poets House, Elise Paschen reflects on the themes behind her collection Blood Wolf Moon, including Osage heritage, family legacy, dreams, and memory. She also shares […]
Date: May 6, 2025
In a recent interview with Heartwood Literary Magazine, Gaylord Brewer discusses his writing process, the interplay between poetry, fiction, and visual art, and the themes that continue to shape his […]
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]
Date: March 1, 2022
The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]
Date: February 22, 2022
Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who […]
Date: February 15, 2022
In Sadie Hoagland’s debut novel, Strange Children, eight young narrators struggle to navigate two very different worlds. Some are exiled to the lurid, modern American city, with its microwave dinners, senseless […]
Date: February 3, 2022
We are taught that a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. We are taught that a girl who ventures on a quest to find her lost parents […]
Date: February 1, 2022
Deadheading, the practice of pruning dead flower heads in order to preserve the plant, provides Beth Gilstrap with a rich metaphor around which to organize her new story collection. The […]
Date: January 24, 2022
DIANE THIEL’S WORK has always asked fundamental and human questions. Janet Holmes, reviewing Thiel’s first book, Echolocations, notes that Thiel’s work deals with “silences, evasions, loss, and omissions.” This third […]
Date: January 18, 2022
In a word, wow! We know how it ends and yet we still find it mesmerizing. We know she kills all four of her children but we read on to […]
Date: January 11, 2022
Weir (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket) returns with a searing collection of stories about death from the perspective of a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic. The unnamed […]
Date: January 4, 2022
Anchorage Daily News book reviewers Nancy Lord and David James present, in no particular order, the 2021 works — including fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels — that they found most […]
