Lara Ehrlich’s Alumni Profile (Q&A) w/ The University of Chicago!
Date: November 30, 2020
What kind of work have you done since MAPH? I see you work as marketing director for an arts festival, do you feel that your time at MAPH prepared you […]
News & Reviews
News:
Vote for ANIMAL WIFE to Win Electric Lit’s ‘Best Book Cover of 2020’!
Date: November 30, 2020
Vote for your favorites on Electric Literature’s Twitter and Instagram stories every day this week: round 1 (a whopping 16 matchups) today, round 2 Tuesday, quarterfinals Wednesday, semifinals Thursday, and the final face-off on […]
SmokeLong Quarterly hosted an interview with Lara Ehrlich!
Date: November 30, 2020
Yes! I often Frankenstein stories, in part due to my inefficient drafting method. I tend to write and write and write and follow tangents without worrying too much about characters […]
HIGH SKIES author Tracy Daugherty at the Portland Book Festival!
Date: November 23, 2020
Corvallis-based writer Tracy Daugherty shares a selection from his new novella, High Skies, in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum. Catch this reading on Literary Arts’ Instagram Stories on November 19th, or stream it […]
Lit Hub has added Lara Ehrlich’s Animal Wife to a list of most notable short story collections this year!
Date: November 23, 2020
“My mother said girls have to take care of themselves. That’s how we avoid turning into sea foam and falling down wells. That’s how we escape hunters and kings who […]
Chelsea Catherine featured in a local website for her opinion on Queer Lit!
Date: November 19, 2020
There’s nothing quite like witness the emergence of cicadas from their 17-year slumber. Of course it’s rather the noise you won’t soon forget. My senior year of high school cicadas […]
Deborah A. Lott featured in Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up”
Date: November 19, 2020
Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME was featured in Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up: your guide to books, writers and the literary life of SoCal.” […]
Interview Q&A with Kristen Millares Young in VOL. 1 Brooklyn
Date: November 18, 2020
You evoke the landscape of Neah Bay incredibly well here; I’ve never been, but I felt a tactile sense of the place. How did you first become familiar with it? […]
Mary Odden (Mostly Water) is featured in Alaska Magazine this month!
Date: November 18, 2020
Boreal Books / Red Hen author, Mary Odden (Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, June 2020) is featured in the November 2020 issue of Alaska Magazine. Her article, “Once More […]
Kristen Millares Young article in The Rumpus!
Date: November 16, 2020
As editor of SEISMIC:Seattle, City of Literature, I asked artists and storytellers to reflect on what it means for Seattle to be a City of Literature. While celebrating Seattle’s inclusion in […]
Reviews:
Review of Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM featured in Jewish Book Council!
Date: October 11, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
“tender gravity”–a gem of a book by Marybeth Holleman
Date: October 10, 2023
Marybeth Holleman’s book tender gravity was my companion on a recent hike in Avalanche Canyon in Grand Teton National Park, and what fine company it was, contributing to the feeling of well-being […]
23 Must-Read Books that Will Transform How You Think about Food and the World
Date: October 10, 2023
This fall, Food Tank is recommending 23 books that can broaden and deepen everyone’s understanding of food systems and the power of storytelling. Books like Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper, Sarah Lohman’s Endangered Eating, […]
Jaya Savige at Times Literary Supplement calls PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason “a home-seeking voice, lured by the Pacific”
Date: September 25, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason’s eighth collection of poems, we find the former Poet Laureate of Colorado newly settled in Tasmania, weighing the “titanic volumes of air” between “here and Patagonia” […]
Vivian Wagner reviews Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: September 20, 2023
What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and […]
Juliana Lamy’s debut short-story collection YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND featured in Daily Kos!
Date: September 20, 2023
The Bookgirl Community in the Daily Kos highlights key takeaways from Juliana Lamy’s first short-story collection, You Were Watching from the Sand, published by Red Hen Press this September! Read […]
Kirkus Reviews calls Lisa C. Krueger’s FLORIOGRAPHY CHILD “a poignant and bittersweet poetry collection about a mother’s devotion.”
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
The New York Journal of Books calls Laila Halaby’s memoir, THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS, “deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound.”
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Soapberry Review features Pete Hsu’s IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME!
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
The Jewish Book Council reviews Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]