Renee H. Shea, formerly professor of English and modern languages at Bowie State University in Maryland, has published extensively on contemporary authors, including Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Monique Truong, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rita Dove, Tracy K. Smith, Arundhati Roy, Lan Cao, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Julie Otsuka, Lisa Bird-Wilson, David Baker, Nathalie Handal, Namwali Serpell, and Celeste Ng.
In The Consequences (Graywolf Press, 2022), his third collection of short fiction, Manuel Muñoz continues telling the stories of migrant workers, seekers, and dreamers in the Central Valley...
Laura Larson, Augustine’s Escape, Digital Color Photograph, 2019
In City of Incurable Women (Saint Lucy Books, 2022), Laura Larson continues her study of nineteenth-century p...
Photo of David Baker by Katherine Baker
With the 2022 publication of Whale Fall (W.W. Norton), his thirteenth book of poetry, David Baker continues to explore the natural world as bot...
Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Saskatchewan Métis and Cree writer and activist. Her debut novel, Probably Ruby (Hogarth / Penguin Random House), will be published in April 2022 in the US, following...
Photo by Kari Gunter-Seymour / www.karigunterseymourpoet.com
Kari Gunter-Seymour (b. 1955) is having a moment—soon to become two years of moments since she was appointed in June...
Harlan Margaret Van Cao and Lan Cao / Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter (Viking, 2020) is a memoir written in alternating...
Marilène Phipps, Roots, 13 x 18 in., oil on linen canvas / Courtesy of the artist
Whether she is a writer who paints or a painter who writes, Marilène Phipps combines the two gifts with a rare...
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Reflecting back over Edwidge Danticat’s nonfiction, Renee H. Shea finds much to be grateful for in Danticat’s extension of her personal stories into political and...
A diagnostic nuclear radiologist, Amit Majmudar was named the first poet laureate of Ohio (2015–2017). He has published three books of poetry, including 0˚, 0˚ (2009), which was a finalist f...