Date: September 22, 2021
Two years ago, Eugene Scene published a story about Weather Woman, Eugene author Cai Emmons’ first book to feature a young woman named Bronwyn Artair, who discovers that by using […]
Date: September 22, 2021
HBL Note: Although SINKING ISLANDS by Cai Emmons is a sequel to Weather Woman, it can also easily be read as a stand-alone novel. In Weather Woman, we meet Bronwyn […]
Date: September 22, 2021
SINKING ISLANDS continues the story of Bronwyn Artair, a scientist who possesses the power to influence the weather and other natural forces of the Earth. After several successful interventions stopping […]
Date: September 20, 2021
Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume […]
Date: September 20, 2021
Red Hen author Kristen Millares Young will be speaking with Anne Liu Kellor via Zoom! The Zoom webinar will be taking place September 28th, 2021, 7 p.m EST.
Date: September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
This week’s spotlight Q&A is on Cai Emmons and her new novel, Sinking Islands, published by Red Hen Press on September 14, 2021. We chatted with Cai about her love of […]
Date: September 15, 2021
“One of the rewarding aspects of novel-writing is the opportunity it affords to travel the world. Never has this been more true for me than when I was writing and […]
Date: September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Date: July 19, 2021
In Prieto’s trenchant debut, the survivors of an apocalypse navigate a scorched land full of desolation and desperation. Among the enigmatic cast is Mark, a bossy young man; Tie, a […]
Date: July 14, 2021
In his debut novel, Dariel Suarez takes the reader into the heart of Cuba, of Havana, of the people of the island. As a Cuban American, I notice how the […]
Date: July 14, 2021
Most of the poems in Dexter L. Booth’s second collection, Abracadabra, Sunshine, are addressed to old lovers, friends, and family, and seek understanding amid the emotional complexities of adult life. Booth […]
Date: July 8, 2021
“In Viner’s exquisite debut, a Southern California woman raised in a cult struggles to reconnect with a lost love amid a dystopian society…With a wholly original and eerily suspenseful story, […]
Date: July 7, 2021
There is a jagged urgency to award-winning and CantoMundo Fellow Zamor’s sixth book. The opening section, “At the Hand of Other,” consists of 30 one-stanza poems that each lean toward memory and immediacy while the poet […]
Date: July 7, 2021
A Camera Obscura stands at the crossroads of many such conversations: one could talk about the close, careful pacing of Mr. Marcum’s prose, a storytelling manner that often feels akin to […]
Date: July 7, 2021
THE TITLE of Judy Grahn’s sixteenth book beckons readers into a world in which all living species share a net of consciousness, a mind as distinct from the brain as […]
Date: June 23, 2021
In Martha Cooley’s novel Buy Me Love, a woman’s lottery win reveals her complicated relationships with money, family, and art. Read the rest of the review here!
Date: June 17, 2021
In A Camera Obscura, Carl Marcum invites us into the skies with a collection wound around the technical language of astronomy and lived experience on Earth. A poem in sections, “The […]
Date: June 14, 2021
“Taut and propulsive.” – The Boston Globe, review of The Playwright’s House. Click here to read more!
