Jennifer Risher interviewed on Wells Fargo Conversations podcast!
Date: November 4, 2021
Author Jennifer Risher discusses the critical role communication and conversation has in demystifying wealth, and normalizing tough money conversations.
News & Reviews
News:
Jan Beatty, author of AMERICAN BASTARD, guest writes for LitHub
Date: November 4, 2021
I was born in Roselia Asylum and Maternity Hospital in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. It was a “home for unwed mothers” where pregnant girls could stay until they had […]
Jan Beatty interviewed by John Busbee on The Culture Buzz
Date: November 2, 2021
American Bastard is a powerful memoir by Jan Beatty, sure to draw the reader into better understanding another’s journey. Jan provides a visceral walk in her shows, through which we […]
LEXICON author Allison Joseph interviewed for Little Infinite!
Date: November 2, 2021
Allison Joseph is the author of many poetry collections, editor, professor of English and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University; Lexicon is a refreshingly […]
PRAISING THE PARADOX by Tina Schumann is now available as an audiobook!
Date: November 1, 2021
Listen to Praising the Paradox, Tina Schumann’s latest poetry collection with Red Hen Press, as the poet reads her own audiobook! Available now wherever audiobooks are sold!
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH author Jennifer Risher featured on the I ALSO Want Money podcast!
Date: November 1, 2021
A money story is your history and relationship with money and wealth. Did you grow up with enough of it? Are you still insecure about it? Are you afraid to […]
Kim Stafford’s SINGER COME FROM AFAR Quoted in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: October 27, 2021
After they furnished us mortality estimateson a sheet to post in the hall, after they sealedthe doors, after they counted our days of water—by megaphone from outside the perimeter—afterthey locked […]
RED HEN PRESS’S ANNUAL BENEFIT GOES VIRTUAL, RAISES $165,000
Date: October 27, 2021
Thanks to your support, and the support of generous anonymous donors, we were able to raise $165,000 at our annual Benefit on Sunday! Read the full story at Pasadena Now […]
David Mason featured on the “Poems On” podcast with Al Basile and Cally Conan-Davies!
Date: October 26, 2021
Jan Beatty interviewed on The Downtown Writers Jam podcast!
Date: October 26, 2021
Author Jan Beatty stopped by the Bunker to talk about her award-winning memoir, American Bastard. If you follow the show, you know that title alone was going to Brad interested. But, the two writers […]
Reviews:
Rebecca Chace’s TALKING TO THE WOLF reviewed in Booklist!
Date: March 24, 2026
“Chace’s latest (after Capture the Flag, 2010) is told mostly through flashbacks and is heavily dependent on what the characters are thinking as they navigate the final day before their […]
David Mason’s COLD FIRE reviewed in Washington Independent!
Date: March 24, 2026
“COLD FIRE is a revitalizing collection that burns off the dross from our tired, worn-out concepts of the world, restoring for us its inherent mystery and splendor.”
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD receives early praise from Foreword Review!
Date: March 24, 2026
“Flush with sensory details, the sprawling, immersive prose includes both extensive information on how a lifeguard wears her swimsuit and evocative active images.”
Adela Najarro’s VARIATIONS IN BLUE reviewed in Presence Journal!
Date: March 24, 2026
“It’s a memorable poem [IGUANA DREAMS], as are many in VARIATIONS IN BLUE, Najarro’s fifth book. She is, I think, still early in her career, one that will, I hope, […]
Khanh Ha’s THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER got a starred Kirkus review!
Date: March 16, 2026
In Ha’s historical novel, a former intelligence officer’s imprisonment in a communist reeducation camp serves as a lens for examining the Vietnam War and its lasting impact. It’s 1978, and […]
Laing Rikkers’ MORNING LEAVES: CULTIVATING A LIFE OF BEAUTY, MEANING, AND JOY reviewed by Kirkus!
Date: March 12, 2026
The author lost her sister at the end of 2019; soon after, the world went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, compounding Rikkers’ already overwhelming loss with a sense […]
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.