The first time I talked to Kevin Sterne was at the pizza bar, The Boiler Room, in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. This was after our joint reading at ...
Brian Evenson’s words unsteady the best of readers. They stretch circumstance to convey the uncertain and unsettling; they confuse, morph; lead you to a room in...
In many ways, Gwen Goodkin’s A Place Remote is about belonging: a dissatisfied optometrist confronts the life choices he’s made; a high school student travels t...
Jamie Marina Lau wrote her debut novel over two months, in a state of trance, at the age of nineteen.
The result was Pink Mountain on Locust Island, a rapturou...
A divine symmetry emerges quietly in Nicolette Polek’s debut collection. Imaginary Museums exhibits twenty-six compact short stories, categorized into four dist...
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’ debut collection won the 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, and it’s no surprise why: Sleepovers is at once dark and allur...
Jenny Bhatt’s debut short story collection has garnered a lot of attention and praise from critics and reviewers alike. The fifteen short stories in Each of Us ...
To call The New Wilderness a work of dystopian fiction would be a bit of a stretch. Diane Cook’s debut novel sedulously navigates motherhood in the prospect of ...
Details accrue quietly in Tara Isabel Zambrano’s debut collection — in the click-clack of a neighbor’s stilettos, in yolk that clings to the fractured shell of ...
Nick Olson’s debut novel occupies an important space in the psyche of American fiction. Spanning sixteen years in the life of Waldo Collins—who isn’t quite Hold...
Mary South’s debut collection You Will Never Be Forgotten (FSG Originals, 2020) is a stunning compendium of enormous emotions and imagistic writing. Whether we’...
Deb Olin Unferth’s Barn 8 (Graywolf Press, March 2020) is a book eight years in the making, and the time and care of each of those years is tangible on the page...
Dima Alzayat’s excellent debut collection Alligator (Picador/Two Dollar Radio) pushes the parameters of hybrid-American identity with stories about hurt, loss, ...
I connected with Hilary Leichter earlier this year, when she made an exciting offer on Twitter: if followers were to DM her a receipt of a debut book purchased ...
With a Difference, a joint book of stories by Nick Gregorio and poems by Francis Daulerio, is a collaborative effort forged from a long friendship and a desire ...
Bree Jo’Ann’s new poetry collection Black Glitter was published in August by Monster House Press. With exciting, vivid imagery and powerful emotions at play...
Doe Parker's The Good House and The Bad House (published by Recenter Press in 2018) is a collection that explores space and place, memory and transness through ...
Shy Watson’s Cheap Yellow was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in January of 2018. Recently I chatted with Shy about how the book came together, why...
Porpentine Charity Heartscape is a writer, game designer, and dead swamp milf in Oakland. Her work includes xenofemme scifi/fantasy, cursed videogames, and glob...
Allison Cobb is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work includes After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiograph...
i love you, it looks like rain is the first full length collection of poetry and short fiction from New-Orleans based poet June Gehringer. It was publi...
In Sparse Black Whimsy Marcus Scott Williams pulls the reader through a cascade of emotions and fleeting thoughts, through a rhythmic and enchanting New York Ci...
Alex Krokus is an illustrator and animator living in Brooklyn. Check out his latest film with Krystal Downs and follow him on Instagram (@alexkrokus).
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Sarah Jean Grimm is the author of Soft Focus, the winner of the 2016 Metatron Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and is a founding editor of Powderkeg Magaz...
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Sommer Browning is a poet, comedian and librarian based in Denver. Her poems have appeared in BOMB, Spork, Brooklyn Rail, and more....
Joanna C. Valente is a ghost who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Joanna is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps P...
Leyna Krow is a writer based in Spokane, Washington. Her book of short stories, I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking, was recently published by Feath...
Megan Giddings is a graduate of Indiana University's MFA program in Creative Writing. She isco-Fiction Editor of The Offing. Her chapbooks, Arcade Seventeen...
Meredith Alling is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her story collection, SING THE SONG, is out now from Future Tense Books (futuretensebooks.com). Her website i...
