By Maceo Montoya Maceo Montoya is a California-based author, artist, and educator who has published books in a variety of genres. Montoya’s paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. …

By Brent Ameneyro Poets John Murillo, Raina J. León, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Yesenia Montilla, Jasminne Mendez, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes have been invited by Letras Latinas to participate in Afro-Latinx Poetry Now, a gathering slated to take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday and…

by Monica Fernandez This past Saturday, August 27, 2022, Red Hen Press had the opportunity to join dozens of other Pasadena nonprofit organizations at the Harambee Block Party, an event hosted by Harambee Ministries to celebrate Pasadena with a day full of music, activities, and community. I was first introduced…

By Audrey Fong In Chelsey Clammer’s second book with Red Hen Press, Human Heartbeat Detected, Chelsey explores how we are both wonderfully and terrifyingly human. Her collection of essays touches on topics such as trauma, emotional abuse, marriage, mental illness, and grief, while maintaining that no matter how we might…

By Audrey Fong Raised in Bellingham, Washington and now living in Tasmania, Australia, David Mason is no stranger to the ocean and its restorative properties. From kayaking to sailing and sea bathing, Mason has engaged with the ocean on multiple levels and uses it as inspiration for his poetry. In…

By Coco Picard Coco Picard is the author of the novel, The Healing Circle, which tells the story of a mother who abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a…

By Marybeth Holleman Marybeth Holleman is the author of the poetry collection tender gravity, which charts her quest for relationship to the more-than-human world, navigating her childhood in North Carolina to her life in Alaska, with deep time in remote land and seascapes. …

By Ruyan Meng Only the Cat Knows, the award-winning novella by Ruyan Meng, explores life in a Chinese worker village in the 1970s. …

By Sampurna Chattarji and Anjum Hasan Sampurna Chattarji A challenging proposition — to select just 3 favorites from an anthology made with so much love, over so many conversations with the texts (and their authors) over such a significant period of time! …