THE WILDERNESS poet Maurya Simon wrote an article featured in THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE!
Date: June 2, 2021
News & Reviews
News:
Judy Grahn, author of new books ERUPTIONS OF INANNA and TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT, interviewed by Nightboat Books!
Date: June 2, 2021
On the publication day of Eruptions of Inanna, learn more about the thinking and process behind author Judy Grahn‘s queer reclamation of these ancient myths, as well as Grahn’s long and storied […]
STRANGE CHILDREN author Sadie Hoagland interviewed in Necessary Fiction!
Date: June 1, 2021
Sadie Hoagland and Maria Kuznetsova first met in 2008, when they were studying fiction writing at UC Davis under Yiyun Li, Lucy Corin, Lynn Freed, and Pam Houston. Each has a second book […]
An article by Sadie Hoagland, author of STRANGE CHILDREN, is featured in Salon!
Date: June 1, 2021
A few years ago, a young woman was murdered on the campus of my hometown’s university, the same campus where I received my doctorate. It made national news, so even though I […]
The Poetry Foundation featured a poem from Dolores Hayden’s EXUBERANCE!
Date: June 1, 2021
Focus on the shapes. Cirrus, a curl,stratus, a layer, cumulus, a heap. Humilis, a small cloud,cumulus humilis, a fine day to fly.
Poets Corner reading to feature RIFT ZONE author Tess Taylor!
Date: June 1, 2021
MIDCOAST — On Sunday, June 13, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., inaugural poet Richard Blanco will appear on ThePoetsCorner.org in conversation with fellow poets Tess Taylor and Rick Barot, brought to the public […]
Johanna Stoberock, author of PIGS; Kristen Millares Young, author of SUBDUCTION; and Elissa Washuta, author of MY BODY IS A BOOK OF RULES featured in the Seattle Met reading list!
Date: May 24, 2021
Pigs by Johanna Stoberock (2019) This grim, weirdo allegory—a little Lord of the Flies, a little Animal Farm—sets us down on a dystopian island inhabited by pigs that eat the world’s […]
Short Play Based on Ellen Meeropol’s HER SISTER’S TATOO Set for Live Reading!
Date: May 24, 2021
Greenfield, MA – Set in an unspecified re-purposed building in a small Western Massachusetts town, Northampton author and playwright Ellen Meeropol’s GRIDLOCK tackles issues of climate change and radical activism as two sisters […]
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH author Jennifer Risher featured on REady2Scale!
Date: May 20, 2021
Wealth surprised me. Having a lot of money doesn’t look or feel like what Hollywood sells us. It can be isolating… And of course, it might be hard to imagine […]
Red Hen Press Receives LA Arts Recovery Fund Grant
Date: May 20, 2021
May 20, 2021 Red Hen Press is honored to be a recipient of an LA Arts Recovery Fund Grant! As one of 90 nonprofits receiving grants, we are excited to […]
Reviews:
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Kenyon Review
Date: October 10, 2020
The subtitle “A Memoir in Essays” suggests that this memoir will follow a nontraditional narrative, and its unexpected movements are part of the reward. The narrative rises and falls with […]
Lara Ehrlich’s ANIMAL WIFE reviewed by Metapsychology Online Reviews.
Date: October 8, 2020
“There is this kind of appeal for readers in the highly recommended Animal Wife, Red Hen Press’s Fiction Award winner, with its fresh take on the mythopoeic in relation to […]
[REVIEW] Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich
Date: September 23, 2020
The cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection, Animal Wife, might make you scream. On it, a quintessential 1950’s housewife, dressed in a frilly apron and with a bow in […]
Midwest Book Review: Tea by the Sea
Date: September 21, 2020
A deftly crafted and entertaining work of impressive literary nuance, “Tea by the Sea” by Donna Hemans is an extraordinary, original, and inherently fascinating novel that is especially and unreservedly […]
On Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: September 21, 2020
In the first of two envois that appear in Joshua Rivkin’s Suitor, a speaker defines the word that gives the collection its title: Suitor, from the Latin secutor,to follow. I can’tcatch them, or […]
Four Questions to Help Demystify Your Relationship With Money
Date: September 14, 2020
Jennifer Risher took a job in campus recruiting at Microsoft in 1991. She was 25 and given stock options worth several hundred thousand dollars. While working there, she met her […]
Publisher’s Weekly: Summer of the Cicadas
Date: September 10, 2020
Catherine wraps a fast-paced, stirring narrative about loss and unrequited love into a story about an unusually aggressive 17-year cicada swarm and the terror it brings to the residents of […]
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Brevity’s Non-Fiction Blog
Date: September 10, 2020
Rebecca McClanahan’s In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays is an exploration of what it means to live in a place, and, in fact, what it means to live […]
Kirkus Reviews: Animal Wife
Date: September 10, 2020
Girls and women caught between myth and the modern world. Selected by Ann Hood as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award, Ehrlich’s debut collection contains 15 stories, some […]
Kirkus Reviews: Unseen City
Date: September 9, 2020
A ghost story that focuses not on a single spirit but on an entire city whose layered history haunts its occupants. “Meg had the unsettling sense that she was seeing […]