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:
Kirkus Reviews and Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Chapter House Journal Reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Midwest Book Review highlights WHAT SHE WANTS by Kim Dower
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
NPR Host Scott Simon talks about THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD with its author Nancy Kricorian
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.
The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Booklist features a starred review of Elisa Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
Nancy Kricorian’s novels tell the stories of the Armenian diaspora, exiled but always seeking community
Date: April 17, 2025
“Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian […]
Book review: Celebrate Poetry Month with new work by veteran Fairbanks poet, Peggy Shumaker
Date: April 15, 2025
Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author […]
War, Literature & the Arts Journal reviews INSTEAD, IT IS DARK by Cynthia Hogue
Date: April 9, 2025
Cynthia Hogue’s poetry collection instead, it is dark is reviewed by Hugh Martin in War, Literature & the Arts Journal. Martin praises the book as one that “probes this darkness […]
Kirkus Review highlights ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura
Date: April 2, 2025
Angel Eye, the second book in Madeleine Nakamura’s series, has received a Kirkus Starred Review. “Nakamura has knocked it out of the park once again here… Readers will be thrilled […]