Small Press Spotlight: Danez Smith

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

[insert] boy, YesYes Books, 2014. Danez Smith is the recipient of a 2014 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from Poetry Magazine & The Poetry Foundation. He is

Small Press Spotlight: Eugenia Leigh

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, Four Way Books, 2014. Eugenia Leigh is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Poets & Writers Magazine, Kundiman, Rattle, and The Asian American Literary Review.

Small Press Spotlight: Abayomi Animashaun

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Photo Credit: Heather Jacobs Sailing for Ithaca, Black Lawrence Press, 2014. Abayomi Animashaun is also the author of The Giving of Pears. A winner of the Hudson Prize and a

Small Press Spotlight: Sue William Silverman

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew, University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Sue William Silverman’s memoir, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, is

Small Press Spotlight: R.A. Villanueva

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reliquaria, University of Nebraska Press, 2014. R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is also the winner

Small Press Spotlight: Wendy C. Ortiz

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Photo Credit: Meiko Takechi Arquillos Excavation: A Memoir, Future Tense Books, 2014. Wendy C. Ortiz is a writer born and raised in Los Angeles. She wrote a year-long, monthly column

Small Press Spotlight: Mitch Kellaway & Zander Keig

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves, Transgress Press, 2014. Mitch Kellaway is a Boston-based transgender writer, editor, and independent researcher. He currently covers queer literature, family

Small Press Spotlight: Cathy Linh Che

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Split, Alice James Books, 2014. Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. She has received awards from The Asian American Literary Review, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Lower Manhattan

Small Press Spotlight: Roberto Montes

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

I Don’t Know Do You, Ampersand Books, 2014. Roberto Montes is the author of the chapbook and web installation, How to Be Sincere in Your Poetry Workshop, available in full

Small Press Spotlight: Monica A. Hand

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

(Author Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffths) me and Nina, Alice James Books, 2012. Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist currently living in The Bronx. Her poems have appeared