Red Hen Press

01/01/2026

Happy New Year 🎆

Let's jump into 2026 with great vibes and more books to add to the TBR list!

12/25/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 12 of gift giving is ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich
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Animal Wife is composed of fifteen stories unified by girls and women seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds. They address the complexities of transitioning from innocence to experience and take on the anxiety of motherhood. The majority of the stories are set in an off-kilter version of our world, where the fantastical can exist side by side with—and reveal the absurdities of—the mundane. They often include monsters, mothers, and monstrous mothers.
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12/25/2025

Sending best wishes this holiday season 🎄

12/24/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 11 of gift giving is Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura
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Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic, must survive his own failing mental health and a tenuous partnership with a dangerous ally in order to save the city of Astrum from a spreading curse.

Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic and disgraced ex-physician, has discovered a conspiracy. Someone is inflicting magical comas on the inhabitants of the massive city of Astrum, and no one knows how or why. Caught between a faction of scheming magical academics and an explosive schism in the ranks of the Astrum’s power-hungry military, Adrien is swallowed by the growing chaos. Alongside Gennady, an unruly, damaged young soldier, and Malise, a brilliant healer and Adrien’s best friend, Adrien searches for a way to stop the spreading curse before the city implodes. He must survive his own bipolar disorder, his self-destructive tendencies, and his entanglement with the man who doesn’t love him back.
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12/23/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 10 of gift giving is FIRE SUMMER by Thuy Da Lam
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When twenty-three-year-old Maia Trieu, a curator’s assistant at the Museum of Folklore & Rocks in Little Saigon, Orange County, is offered a research grant to Vietnam for the summer of 1991, she cannot refuse. The grant’s sponsor has one stipulation: Maia is to contact her great-aunt to pass on plans to overthrow the current government. The expatriates did not anticipate that Maia would become involved with excursions in search of her mother or attract an entourage: an American traveler, a government agent, an Amerasian singer, and a cat.

Maia carries out what she believes is her filial role to her late father, a former ARVN soldier, by returning to their homeland to continue the fight for an independent Vietnam. Along the way, however, she meets a cast of characters—historical and fictional, living and dead—who propel her on a journey of self-discovery through which she begins to understand what it means to love.
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12/22/2025

It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers - Day 21 📚

Today we are sharing books for the last minute shoppers…*whispers* we got you 😉

~Fiction~
THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD by Nancy Kricorian
AQUEOUS by Jade Shyback
MONKEY BUSINESS by Carleton Eastlake
PARNUCKLIAN FOR CHOCOLATE by B.H. James
LIVING THINGS by Landon Houle
MACLEISH SQ. by Dennis Must

~Poetry~
A FIRE IN THE HILLS by Afaa M. Weaver
BINDED by H Warren
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel
SNAKE by Gary Lemons
BRIGHT STAIN by Francesca Bell

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Happy holidays ✨

12/21/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 9 of gift giving is APOCRIFA by Amber Flame
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APOCRIFA imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, romance, s*x, relationships, and affection that do not lend to direct translation in English. Serving as both titles and markers of the progression of time, these poetically defined words highlight the growing tension of one who claims “i cannot love you enough/to unlove the wide world” and yet is inextricably drawn to the offer of “a place of sustenance, rest, and my delight in your very bones.” Heavily inspired by the metaphors and structures of Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon), from the Apocryphal books of the Bible, the characters speak to each other with contrapuntal call-and-response while letting us into their private thoughts through epistles, sestinas, odes, and other poetic forms.
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12/21/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 8 of gift giving is A FIRE IN THE HILLS by Afaa Weaver
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In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X’s life as credo.
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12/20/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 7 of gift giving is LIVID by Cai Emmons
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Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty, she is dismayed to be assigned to the jury of a murder trial alongside her ex-husband with whom she had a rancorous divorce. As the trial progresses, she and her ex tiptoe around each other but eventually become disastrously entangled. Meanwhile, Sybil obsesses about the female defendant, whom she believes is innocent. The situation explodes during jury deliberations when Sybil comes face-to-face with her own unexpressed rage.
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12/20/2025

Holiday Countdown continues with 12 Days of Gift Giving 🎁
We are sharing 12 books each day until December 25 for book readers looking for the perfect read for the holidays 🎄

Day 6 of gift giving is LETTERS WRITTEN AND NOT SENT by William Louis-Dreyfus
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Letters Written and Not Sent is the lifetime work of poet William Louis-Dreyfus, written over decades, culminating a passion for poetry, art and social justice. He passed away just days after the book was completed. Like paperweights, his lyrics are both small and hefty. His subjects range from race relations to trees, from secrets to parenthood, from ideas of god to kissing, from sons and mothers to fate, and of course, to poetry itself. Never afraid of the big questions of why human beings are alive, and what hope and justice are for, Louis-Dreyfus could take decades to finish a poem. A perfectionist, a thinker, and always inspired by visual art, he fought with himself over how to say what he wanted to say best. Like the French-Uruguayan businessman poet Jules Supervielle, whom Louis-Dreyfus translated, he felt the tug of the financial world against the pull of the lyricism of poetry, and the division marked his life and sparked ideas for his finest poems. As the heart condition that seized him made it absolutely imperative, finishing Letters Written and Not Sent literally became a life-or-death matter. This is the book that he wished to send into the world.
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12/19/2025

Thank you to The Common for their review of Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA describing how, “we find ourselves not only engaged in a dialogue with different artistic and cultural practices, but also, at the same time, carrying away an intricately described sensory taste...”

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OLGA ZILBERBOURG Sometimes, the perspective shifts unexpectedly from one character to another across time and space, and in other stories a first-person narrator’s voice that begins a story disappears and the story continues in the third person, as though looking over the shoulder of the earl...

12/19/2025

We asked Molly Olguín what books she gravitates to during the holiday season and we couldn’t agree more 📚 🤗

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season cozied up with your favorite book, and be sure to tag us if it’s a Red Hen read 📕

Maybe start the holiday tradition with *cough, cough* THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD *cough* any book that feels right this season 🎄

Thank you for sharing with us your holiday faves!