Review by Katy E. Ellis Joanna Streetly is a prize-winning Canadian poet and non-fiction writer who emigrated from Trinidad and has lived on the unceded territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht on Vancouver Island for the past thirty years. The poems…
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Shasta Grant on When We Were Feral Interviewed by Tyler Wetherall Shasta Grant’s haunting debut novel is a coming-of-age story that doesn’t shy away from the brutalities of girlhood. Set in 1990s rural New Hampshire, it follows 13-year-old Maggie…
Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Pooja Ugrani, My Home is Dissent, Poetrywala, February 2026, poetry My Home is Dissent is a luminous poetry collection that moves fluidly between the everyday and the elemental, where the domestic becomes a site…
Review by Tessara Dudley Singing from the Deep End is a powerful book of poetry about motherhood and life cycles. It is divided into three sections, each focused on the author’s relationships with the four people to whom the…
Review by Susan Blumberg-Kason Sometimes it takes near-death experiences for people to really start living. In Sharon White’s latest novel, Minato Sketches, Gigi, the protagonist, suffers a stroke and leaves her husband and grown sons behind when she moves…
Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Maria Lisella, At the Hour of Now, Bordighera Press, April 2026, poetry Maria Lisella’s newest collection At the Hour of Now tells the unflinchingly honest story of a blended family that raises urgent questions,…
Review by A. Anupama In this collection, Catherine Esposito Prescott’s poems trace the loss of her teenage son Austen to a rare, pediatric brain cancer. I read this collection in the time between Mother’s Day and my daughter’s high…
Review by Rebecca Jane wolves in shells rewilds the experience of reading poetry. This collection achieves narrative justice for battered women, abandoned women, wolves hunted as game, and domestic experience. Here, language repositions spaces we dwell in to alter…
Famished: On food, sex, and growing up as a good girl by Anna Rollins Review by Melanie McGehee In Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl, Anna Rollins examines the influences of purity culture and diet…
Review by Tessara Dudley Holli Carrell’s debut collection, Apostasies, is the lyrical diary of an adult reckoning with the aftermath of a girlhood within the Mormon church. Though it is poetry, it draws on a variety of archives and…