Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hemans
Date: June 30, 2020
Read the full interview here!
News & Reviews
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Poets & Writers: Tea by the Sea
Date: June 30, 2020
“Eight years of active searching had come to this: an abandoned house, an outdoor stove, and a doll, signs of a former life but necessarily his and hers.” In this […]
NY Post: The best books of the week
Date: June 30, 2020
Tea by the SeaDonna Hemans (fiction, Red Hen Press)Plum Valentine’s daughter was taken from her the day after the baby was born, snatched, without explanation, by the girl’s father. Seventeen […]
The Rumpus: An Exploration of Belonging
Date: June 30, 2020
Jamaica-born writer Donna Hemans has been said to hear “life sung by a chorus, not a single voice.” Her plots are as intense as thrillers yet as resonant as poetry, and the lyricism and […]
Pigs on the TODAY show
Date: June 30, 2020
For June, the Read With Jenna book club dove into Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, “A Burning.” The book tackles themes of class, fate and corruption in contemporary India through the stories of […]
IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out
Date: June 30, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
TriCornerNews: “My Heart Cannot Accept It All” poem by Susan Kinsolving
Date: June 30, 2020
Forgive yourself for thinking smallfor cooking soups, ignoring blight.The mind cannot contain it all
Giving Compass: #HalfMyDAF: A Challenge To Donors To Unlock Capital For A Reimagined World
Date: June 30, 2020
Launched in early May, #HalfMyDAF is the brainchild of philanthropists David and Jennifer Risher. With more than $120 billion sitting in Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) at a time when nonprofits are facing additional obstacles to […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Donor-advised funds are stacking up cash. A former Amazon executive wants it given away faster
Date: June 30, 2020
David Risher and his wife, Jennifer, are urging other tech philanthropists to put money sitting in charitable vehicles to work at nonprofits that need it. And they’re putting $1 million […]
Psychology Today: Wrestling with Wealth
Date: June 30, 2020
When I got a job offer to be a campus recruiter at Microsoft in 1991, I had no idea how much good fortune was heading my way. I was 25 […]
Reviews:
As It Ought to Be” raves about “River Electric With Light”!”
Date: March 16, 2016
The editor describes the book as "enigmatic, transversive, transformative," and so beautifully writes that there is "water–and the life water ensures–running through this book." Thanks for the wonderful words of […]
Dean Kostos: This is Not a Skyscraper
Date: February 16, 2016
"An interview with Dean Kostos about the power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island." The online magazine Guernica contucted an interview with author Dean Kostos as well […]
Fogged Clarity Reviews Dean Kostos’s Latest Collection of Poetry
Date: February 9, 2016
The Literary journal Fogged Clarity has beautifully reviewed Dean Kostos's latest collection of poetry This Is Not a Skyscaper. "Like New York itself, with its carefully plotted grid of streets […]
The Yellow Door” Celebrated by Nichi Bei!”
Date: January 20, 2016
"Journey through a post-war Japanese American landscape with Amy Uyematsu as she defines race, unpacks the family incarceration experience and discovers a confluence with Japanese culture in “The Yellow Door,” […]
On Birds of Paradise Lost” by Andrew Lam”
Date: January 12, 2016
"Just as Lam connects with and penetrates each persona, so too each persona achieves a moment that bridges or leaps the gap between our two cultures, forever wedded by the […]
When the World Breaks Open is a hit with Kirkus Reviews!
Date: December 7, 2015
The first review for Seema Reza’s memoir When the World Breaks Open is live! Kirkus Review praises Reza for her “self-lacerating honesty” and that she “exercises literary license and often […]
Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules” is featured on Buzzfeed! “
Date: December 7, 2015
Arianna Rebolini, writer for Buzzfeed, created a list of books that will help the public understand mental disorders and illnesses. Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules is […]
Blotterature Celebrates The Crawford County Sketchbook”!”
Date: December 3, 2015
Called a "must read for all of those fans of Southern Gothic, great storylines, nostalgia, and a tinge of weirdness," this is one book you won't want to miss. Read […]
For this month’s Southwest Book Review, Mary Sojourner spoke with author Mark Rozema about his memoir Road Trip.””
Date: November 20, 2015
Mary Sojourner, from KNAU, interviews Mark Rozema and discusses his first memoir, Road Trip. She brings up the focus Road Trip has on grace and the gift of being in […]
Brad Wethern’s Kids in the Wind” leaves an impression on Cleaver Magazine!”
Date: November 16, 2015
Rachael Tague, of Cleaver Magazine, recently reviewed Brad Wethern's Kids in the Wind. She comments on how Wethern seems to blend the lines between imagination and reality by saying his […]