Members and friends, we’re excited to announce the critics who will be joining our board next year! The results from our latest election are in, and our new and returning members, who will serve from 2026 to 2029, are Joanna Biggs, Zoë Hu, Lauren LeBlanc, Anahid Nersessian, J. Howard Rosier, Michael Schaub, Craig Morgan Teicher, and David Woo. Congratulations to all of them—we look forward to working with them in the coming years!
Member Reviews/Essays
Heather Treseler reviewed Seamus Heaney’s The Poems of Seamus Heaney in “What the Laureate Left Out” for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Cory Oldweiler reviewed House of Day, House of Night, written by Olga Tokarczuk and translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, for The Boston Globe.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell wrote about Thanksgiving, friendship, and loss in her Girl Writing blog for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Ryan L. Cole’s The Last Adieu for BookTrib.
Diane Josefowicz reviewed Marion Orr’s House of Diggs for The Providence Eye and contributed capsule reviews of several books, including The Harmattan Winds, written by Sylvain Trudel and translated from the French by Donald Winkler; Journey to the Edge of Life, written by Tezer Özlü and translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely, and Wrongful by Lee Upton, to Literary Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025.
Hope Reese wrote about five books about disconnecting from tech for The New York Times.
Paul Wilner offered end-of-the-year reading recommendations for the Nob Hill Gazette.
McKenzie Watson-Fore reviewed Gabriella D’Italia’s Getting Dressed in the Dark for Heavy Feather Review and wrote about exvangelical drag queen Flamy Grant and compared their career trajectory to that of disgraced Christian music superstar Michael Tait for Christian Century.
Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Terry Dactyl for Shelf Awareness.
Jenny Shank participated in the 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 list that ran in Literary Hub. She reviewed Hellions by Julia Elliott, A Desert Between Two Seas by A. Muia, and The Murmur of Everything Moving by Maureen Stanton.
Marcie Geffner reviewed Perversion of Justice by Julie K. Brown for Mostly Books.
Bridget Quinn reviewed Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois, written by Marie-Laure Bernadac and translated from the French by Lauren Elkin, for Hyperallergic.
Nell Beram reviewed Until Alison by Kate Russo for the Portland Press Herald.
Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Sea Now, written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for the Ancillary Review of Books.
Diane Scharper reviewed True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Mathiessen by Lance Richardson for the Washington Examiner.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Savings And Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards; Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement by Brandon M. Terry; and House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. by Marion Orr for the California Review of Books.
Mary Pols reviewed Janice Page’s Year of the Water Horsefor The New York Times.
Member Interviews
Elaine Szewczyk profiled Jo Nesbø for Publishers Weekly.
Adam M. Lowenstein interviewed Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Jessica F. Green, and Karen Elliott House for Drilled.
For the podcast A Meal of Thorns, Jake Casella Brookins talked to scholar and critic Cameron Kunzelman about Ned Beauman’s novel Venomous Lumpsucker.
Member News
Ryan Teitman’s poem “Paperweight,” the title poem of his forthcoming collection from the University of Akron Press, was featured on the poetry podcast The Slowdown.
Rebecca Foust was the featured poet with five poems in the current issue of The Missouri Review, and her poem “Tacoma Narrows” is in the new issue of On the Seawall. The poems are from the second edition of Foust’s chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, forthcoming from Blue Light Press and reviewed in On the Seawall and in theHarvard Review, as well as in Innisfree Poetry Journal, Philly Chapbook Review, Raven Chronicles and Rhino. Another poem from the book, “The Golden Country,” was recently featured on Verse Daily.
Jeannine Burgdorf’s latest short story, “Five Names for Grace,” is in the 2025 Bridge Journal, featuring artwork by Maura Walsh.
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