Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California, and specializing in the publication of poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction. The press is a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses,CLMP Directory of Publishers and was a finalist for the 2013 AWP Small Press Publisher Award. The press has been featured in Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly | Red Hen Press Works to Keep Poetry Relevant | by Wendy Werris | Jan 31, 2011 Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus Reviews | News and Features | Q&A: Kate Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press and Independent Publisher.Independent Publisher | Indie Groundbreaking Publisher | Red Hen Press | Awarding Its Community with Creative Literature for Over 18 Years | by Ariel Bronson
Red Hen Press titles have been reviewed in Library Journal,Library Journal Book Review | by Terry Hong | of Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu | May 1, 2020Library Journal Book Review | by Karla Huston | of Rift Zone by Tess Taylor | June 1, 2020 Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly Book Review | The Sadness of Whirlwinds | by Jim Peterson | 09/07/2021 Booklist,Booklist | Reviews Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On, by Gary Soto | October 2017 Kirkus Reviews,Kirkus Review of The Blue Box by Ron Carlson August 19, 2014 The Washington Post,The Washington Post | Review by Chris Carroll | What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country? Steve Almond asks, and tries to answer. | April 27, 2018 The New York Times,The New York Times Books I The Hollow Men by Brian Morton I Review of Martha Cooley’s The Archivist I April 26, 1998The New York Times Magazine | Poem: I Gave My Love a Story by Tess Taylor | Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye (from Rift Zone) | April 16, 2000 and other publications. Authors have been interviewed or featured on NPR,NPR Morning Edition | When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic: Authors Talk About Terrible Timing | Interviews by Neda Ulaby | July 23, 20215 PBS Newshour,PBS NewsHour | Poet Tess Taylor on How Verse Can Provide Solace | March 2, 2021 in The Boston Globe,The Boston Globe | Arts | Best Books of 2020 | Poetry | The Rift Zone by Tess Taylor Southern Review of Books,Southern Review of Books Beth Gilstrap on Titles, Flash Fiction and Deadheading Interview by Bradley Sides October 25, 2021 and other venues. Authors representative of the poets and writers the press publishes include Chris Abani,Poets & Writers Directory | Chris Abani Jan Beatty,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Review: Jan Beatty Unleashes an Adoptee’s Anger in American Bastard | November 9, 2021 Camille Dungy,Poets & Writers Directory | Camille Dungy Gaylord Brewer,MTSU Faculty Profile Gaylord Brewer Publications Aimee Liu,Booklist | Starred Review by Cari Dubiel of Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu | May 1, 2020Library Journal | Starred Review by Terry Hong of Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu | May 1, 2020 Ron Carlson,Kirkus Review of The Blue Box by Ron Carlson August 19, 2014 Nickole Brown,Publishers Weekly Review of Sister by Nickole Brown July 30, 2007 and Steve Almond.The Washington Post | Review by Chris Carroll | What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country? Steve Almond asks, and tries to answer. | April 27, 2018
History Red Hen Press was founded in 1994 by Mark E. Cull and Kate Gale. The press was reorganized as a non-profit 501(c)(3), getting its federal exemption in 2004. It established a Writing in the Schools program in 2003,Red Hen Press website | About Us which has received funding from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs, Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Rose Hills Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Macy's Foundation, and the Ahmanson Foundation.The Ahmanson Foundation | Grants Paid | Red Hen Press
It has held reading series at the Ruskin Art Club, Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Annenberg Beach House, and the Geffen Playhouse.Entertainment Today | Small Presses Onward | by Sean Reynolds | March 15, 2007 The press has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a poetry lecture and discussion series.National Endowment for the Humanities | Grants for Public Programs | 2021 | Grant number like: GA-280608-21 | Red Hen Press Presents Poetry Reformed: Discussions of Formalism and Its Place in Poetry Today
Imprints Red Hen Press has eight imprints: Arktoi Books, Boreal Books, Canis Major Books, Crooked Hearts, DJS Books, Pig Hog Press, Story Line Press and Xeno Books.
Arktoi Books was established in 2006 by Eloise Klein Healy and publishes literary fiction and poetry by lesbian writers. It publishes at least one book every year, by new and established authors,Red Hen Press Website Arktoi Books Page such as Celeste Gainey’s The Gaffer,Lambda Literary | Too bright/ is the heaven I’m after: A Review of Celeste Gainey’s 'The Gaffer' by Julie Marie Wade | March 17, 2015The Rumpus | Book Review by Rebecca Bornstein | The Gaffer by Celeste Gainey | July 4, 2015 and Veronica Reyes, whose Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives won the 2014 Golden Crown Literary Society Award, the 2014 International Latino Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award.Poets & Writers Directory | Veronica Reyes
Boreal Books was established in 2008 and focuses on literature and fine art from Alaska, such as Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s Everything Never Comes Your Way,Anchorage Daily News | Books | In new volume of poetry, Nicole O’Donnell articulates a non-mythic, realist sense of the northern life she knows by Nancy Lord | September 4, 2021Shelf Awareness | Readers Issue | Poetry | Starred Review Everything Never Comes Your Way by Nicole O’Donnell August 20, 2021 and Mark Rozema’s Road Trip.Kirkus | Book Reviews | Road Trip by Mark Rozema | June 15, 2015Arizona Public Radio | KNAU’s Southwest Book Review: Mark Rozema’s Road Trip | by Mary Sojourner | November 20, 2015 It is edited by Peggy Shumaker, State Laureate Writer of Alaska.Red Hen Press Website Boreal Books Page
Red Hen Press has also published many artist's books by Welsh printmaker Shirley Jones.
See also Los Angeles Review
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