I first discovered Taisia Kitaiskaia when I read her book Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers. It completely opened...

We recently read White Oleander by Janet Fitch in one of the graduate classes I’m teaching this spring, and I was so excited to fall in...

I started reading Gwendolyn Kiste in 2018 and I’ve been steadily devouring her work ever since. Her words are like a storm cloud, like...

I'm picky when it comes to reading book series, mostly because I have no self-control, so if I find myself in love with a world, that’s...

Resurrection is a favorite theme of mine when it comes to storytelling. I just love the intensity of it and how it pushes boundaries and...

If I had to pick my top three favorite books of all time, they would be: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson¸ The...

With everything that’s been happening in 2020, I’ve had a bit of an atypical reading year so far. That’s not to say that I haven’t been...

Oh, how I adore this book. I’ve read it twice now and I’m looking forward to teaching it in the fall and talking about how this novel...

When the film adaptation of Annihilation came out in 2018, I was beyond excited, and not just because Natalie Portman was playing the...

I love Button Poetry. In fact, they are one of my favorite poetry presses, and I buy from them as much as possible and usually read...

I always try to spend a good amount of time in the dealer’s room at conventions, and while I didn’t get as much book time as I would have...

I’m a big Clive Barker fan, and I credit him to being one of the authors who made me want to start writing in the first place. The...

This semester in the Western Connecticut State University MFA program, I’m teaching David Mitchell’s novel, Slade House. We’ve been...

I’ve made it no secret that one of—if not my absolute—favorite book series is by Seanan McGuire. Her Wayward Children series is the...

When I saw that Clash Books was publishing a collection of poetry by Heather Bell, I was immediately excited, so excited in fact, that I...

The cover for True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik grabbed me by the eyes and dragged me to Amazon, where I quickly purchased the book. I...

I’ve had My Sister, The Serial Killer my Oyinkan Braithwaite on my TBR list since it came out in 2017, and by chance, I saw it at Half...

For me, reading Patti Smith is a spiritual, enlightening experience, and I know that sounds like a tall order, but her words and music...

I recently read Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R....

One book that I had on my TBR list for far too long was The Witches of New York by Ami McKay. I made this one a priority last month and...