Caroline Leavitt Interviews SINKING ISLANDS Author Cai Emmons
Date: September 1, 2021
“I met and befriended Cai the way I do almost every new friend: a book comes in the mail and I love it so much, I have to know the […]
News & Reviews
News:
Jaye Viner guest writes for The Book Slut!
Date: August 31, 2021
Francesca Bell’s next collection WHAT SMALL SOUND featured in Rattle Magazine!
Date: August 31, 2021
Jay Viner, author of JANE OF BATTERY PARK, featured on ‘6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities’!
Date: August 30, 2021
“My mother believes she and my father are failures because their children are no longer “in the church.” The oft-recited proverb, “Train up a child in the way he should […]
Verse Daily Features “Field Notes w/ Stripped Trailer” by Carl Marcum
Date: August 30, 2021
“Not burned, not fire, but fire’s recourse— its appetite. The 2×4 & 4×4 frame discernible as a skeleton. An American- built trailer, good sized, double wide, out away from city […]
Kate Gale interviewed for La Femme Absurd
Date: August 25, 2021
Nidhi Ajay of La Femme Absurd, a conversational newsletter, interviewed Managing Editor Kate Gale recently! Check out the insights that Kate provides about publishing and its past, present, and future, […]
Deputy Director Tobi Harper featured in the Los Angeles Times!
Date: August 25, 2021
Deputy Director Tobi Harper and Red Hen author Lily Hoang (Underneath, 2021) were featured and interviewed in this Los Angeles Times article about the future of book publishing during this […]
The Rumpus features an exclusive excerpt of Jaye Viner’s book JANE OF BATTERY PARK!
Date: August 19, 2021
The Libertines trial was announced at 8 a.m. Eastern. By the time Jane’s alarm went off at 4 p.m. Pacific, the media was consumed with it. Drivers stranded with Jane on the […]
The Rumpus Book Club chat with Cai Emmons about SINKING ISLANDS!
Date: August 19, 2021
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Cai Emmons about her new novel, Sinking Islands (Red Hen Press, September 2021), how writing sequel is and isn’t different from writing a standalone novel, the […]
Zachary Doss’s novel BOY OH BOY featured in the list of “25 LGBTQ Books You’ll Love from Indie Presses”!
Date: August 12, 2021
Indie presses are releasing some of the best LGBTQ books you could ask for. Words like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer describe how people fall in love, present their […]
Reviews:
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 […]
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO by Tom Lutz Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
Date: July 24, 2025
Four stories merge into one in this tale of politics and greed set in the Indian Ocean. No one can trust anyone in this incendiary tale of murder, espionage, and […]
This Isle Is Full of Noises: World Literature Today On Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Date: June 30, 2025
Twelve years ago, Andrew Lam, a writer and journalist who left Vietnam as “a plane person” at the end of the Vietnam War at the age of eleven, published Birds of Paradise […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Reviews STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA by Andrew Lam
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Necessary Fiction Remarks on the Interplay Between “the Weird and the Mundane” in Their Glowing Review of Molly Olguín’s Debut Collection THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY Featured in Seven Days’ Writeup On Vermont Books
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Kirkus Reviews and Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Chapter House Journal Reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Midwest Book Review highlights WHAT SHE WANTS by Kim Dower
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
NPR Host Scott Simon talks about THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD with its author Nancy Kricorian
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.