Listen to Andrew Lam on The Listen & Be Heard Hour podcast!
Date: February 4, 2026
Andrew Lam reads Grandma’s Tales, from Watermark, and talks with Martha about his life now after journalism.
News & Reviews
News:
Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL is Fiction Pick of the Week from Sydney Morning Herald
Date: February 3, 2026
In The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen told a gruesome tale of a mermaid who mutilates herself to take to land. Lara Ehrlich gives a fascinating feminist echo to that […]
Listen to Laing Rikkers on the podcast Forgive Yourself!
Date: January 29, 2026
Laing Rikkers appeared on the podcast Forgive Yourself, where she discusses her book Morning Leaves, with the second edition coming out next spring. The host of the podcast, Brenda Reiss, […]
Kristen Millares Young’s DESIRE LINES featured in People Magazine
Date: January 20, 2026
Kristen Millares Young will take readers along on her journey of discovery as she publishes her debut memoir this year. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the acclaimed novelist, […]
April Ossmann’s essay on her book WE featured on Together Across Differences’ Substack
Date: January 13, 2026
We: A collection of poetry reflecting coming together across differences We love the new friends and colleagues we are meeting on the journey of our book, Beyond the Politics of Contempt. […]
April Ossmann author of WE featured on Brattleboro Community Television
Date: January 13, 2026
Brattleboro Indivisible hosts What Does Democracy Look Like? at the Latchis Theater. The event celebrates democracy through art, music, poetry and discussion. On exhibit will be work by local artists […]
Ms. Magazine features DREAMS IN WHICH I’M ALMOST HUMAN by Hannah Soyer, GIVEN AWAY by Nahid Rachlin, and DESIRE LINES by Kristen Millares Young in their list of most anticipated feminist books of 2026
Date: January 13, 2026
The Feminist Know-It-All: You know her. You can’t stand her. Good thing she’s not here! Instead, this column by gender and women’s studies librarian Karla Strand will amplify stories of […]
Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD featured in Book Riot
Date: January 6, 2026
I don’t know what I expected to find when I went to check out the Tournament of Books shortlist, but I was delighted by the selection of books. We’ve got […]
CounterPunch features Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD in their My Favorites of 2025 Books
Date: January 6, 2026
I’m not a big fan of these “best of” lists (I didn’t watch, listen or read everything out there), but of all the new(ish) arts entertainment (or edutainment, as KRS-One would […]
Nancy Kricorian interviews with Radio Boise on THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD
Date: January 6, 2026
Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers.The guest: In vivid, poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, […]
Reviews:
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock reviewed by Foreword Reviews!
Date: August 1, 2019
Six giant pigs, four kids, and a gang of adults on a magical island maintain a tenuous balance of power until two castaways show up in Johanna Stoberock’s probing literary […]
2018 Fall/Winter Reading List
Date: October 3, 2018
It’s 1923 and 19-year-old Dara falls in love with her best friend, who happens to be a girl. To avoid a bleak, terrifying future in their small town, Dara takes […]
Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
Date: October 3, 2018
Andy Davis from Eco-fiction recently interviewed Cai Emmons author of Weather Woman. Davis asks Emmons about her inspirations and knowledge needed to write about the character in the story. Davis […]
Review: Weather Woman is a fantasy about control and illusion
Date: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]
Asterix Journal reviews Gabriel Jesiolowski’s ‘As Burning Leaves’
Date: October 2, 2018
"…Jesiolowski has crafted a book of movement and landscape, in which individuals quietly but significantly consider what it is to move and transform from place to place" Thanks, Asterix Journal! […]
10 Great Resons To Read Fiction In October 2018
Date: October 2, 2018
Oakland Public Library has complied 10 ficiton books that everyone should read this October! Read the full article here
Peggy Shumaker’s CAIRN reviewed in INTO THE VOID
Date: September 27, 2018
Peggy Shumaker was the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012 and the founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. Cairn, her recently published collection, […]
As Burning Leaves’ receives a stunning review from Lambda Literary!
Date: September 26, 2018
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review
Dean Kostos: Poet of Two Worlds
Date: September 12, 2018
The lit Pub did a review on Dean Kostos's Poetry style from his various poetry books. It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An […]
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph?s ?Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: September 11, 2018
Allison Joseph's, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of […]