Molly McCloy interviewed on The ARTWIFE Podcast!
Date: March 3, 2026
Molly McCloy discusses her upcoming memoir, NINE GRUDGES: THE SPITEFUL ORIGINS OF THE HAPPIEST DYKE ON EARTH with Hannah Harlee.
News & Reviews
News:
Amy Pence’s YELLOW listed in Deep South Magazine!
Date: March 3, 2026
It’s 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab’s launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK listed in the New York Post!
Date: February 24, 2026
This satirical literary thriller has shades of Joan Didion and Bret Easton Ellis. A 19-year-old NYU dropout returns home to Brentwood to laze about and enjoy popping prescription pills. But […]
Lily Hoang and Vi Khi Nao discuss TIMBER & LUA with Electric Lit!
Date: February 17, 2026
With Nào and Hoàng’s signature styles of experimentation blending together, the resulting text is a cross narrative exploration of linguistic points that extract worlds populated by squids who are stars, […]
Amy Pence’s YELLOW Listed One of 27 Indie Releases to Add to Your 2026 TBR List by OC Register
Date: February 11, 2026
What It’s About: Pasadena press Red Hen was established in 1994, and has published over 550 books since then. One of this year’s releases is this novel, set in 1973 Louisiana, about […]
Listen to Kim Dower on the Getting Work to Work podcast!
Date: February 10, 2026
There’s a lot that holds us back as creative individuals, but today’s guest thinks one question is the death of our creativity: who cares? The work begins when you shift […]
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL listed in Library Journal’s Prepub Alert Preview!
Date: February 4, 2026
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL revisits struggling newlyweds traveling from Oregon to California in 1875.
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.
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, […]
Reviews:
Kristen Millares Young’s DESIRE LINES Gets Starred on Shelf Awareness!
Date: August 4, 2026
Accomplished storyteller Kristen Millares Young’s communion with an ancient mother goddess and her quest to reconcile the incongruities of her “maddening matriarchs” provide an intriguing thematic framework for her first […]
Sundress Reads reviews Abi Pollokoff’s latest poetry collection, NIGHT MYTHS • • BEFORE THE BODY.
Date: August 4, 2026
Abi Pollokoff’s night myths • • before the body (Red Hen Press, 2025) is a tour de force of inventive language. She constructs an incredibly original poetic landscape via fragmentation, […]
North of Oxford reviews David Mason’s latest poetry collection, COLD FIRE!
Date: August 4, 2026
When reading the poetry of Mason, one comes to an understanding of a universality in all things. Similar, yet not, to Spinoza’s philosophy that the universe itself is God and […]
Michelle Sacks’s DANCING AT THE END OF THE WORLD Reviewed By Booklist
Date: August 1, 2026
“Tender and rich in their complexity, Sacks’ stories will remain with readers long after they finish the novel”
Molly McCloy’s NINE GRUDGES Reviewed By Booklist
Date: August 1, 2026
“Her memoir will make readers from other “low supervision” families feel seen.”
DC Frost’s A SHADOW OF JAGUARS Recieves Publishers Weekly Review
Date: July 29, 2026
“The narrative has drama, sex, and a wacky cast.”
Southern Literary Review Praises Amy Pence’s YELLOW
Date: July 21, 2026
“Through lyrical writing, Pence creates a spellbinding, mesmerizing narrative.”
Hannah Soyer’s DREAMS IN WHICH I’M ALMOST HUMAN reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly!
Date: July 21, 2026
In this breathtaking autobiography, Soyer (The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet) examines how her life has been shaped by disability, medical trauma, and questions of personal autonomy.
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK Praised By Colorado State Center For Literary Publishing
Date: July 9, 2026
“Like the tornado in the Wizard of Oz, Kill Dick can be read cyclically from beginning to end, back to beginning to end, and so on.”
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD Earns Praise In North of Oxford Review
Date: July 1, 2026
“The Lifeguard is more than its defining plot point, more diverse than a collective main character.”