The mission of Red Hen Press is to discover, publish, and promote works of literary excellence that have been overlooked by mainstream presses, and to build audiences for literature in two ways: by fostering the literacy of youth and by bringing distinguished and emerging writers to the public stage.
Red Hen has published more than 170 books and has established a significant cultural presence in Southern California and beyond. In 2007, Red Hen published twenty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, including significant works by David Mason, Maurya Simon, Chris Abani, Charles Harper Webb, and Eloise Klein Healy. We offer our authors not only publication and editorial support, but also help in placing their book in their local bookstores as well as help setting up readings and book signings locally and nationally. Red Hen Press is a space for writers to be celebrated.
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David Mason's books of poems include The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), and Arrivals. His verse novel, Ludlow (Red Hen Press), winner of the Colorado Book Award, was published in 2007, and named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. His latest title is News from the Village (Red Hen Press, 2010), a memoir set largely in Greece. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Anne Lennox. In 2010 he was appointed Colorado Poet Laureate.
William Archila earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Agni, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Georgia Review, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry International, and Puerto del Sol among others. His first book, The Art of Exile, won the Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer's Center.
Peggy Shumaker is the Alaska State Writer Laureate. Her new book of poems is Gnawed Bones. Her lyrical memoir is Just Breathe Normally. She?s currently working on a manuscript of poems set in Costa Rica. Peggy lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, and travels widely. Professor emerita at University of Alaska Fairbanks, she teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop and at many writing conferences and festivals.
