Naomi Kimbell interviewed Sofia Samatar about Monster Portraits for Women on Writing here, asking such great questions as “I have a history of fearing monsters,…

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Congratulations to Jennifer Tseng, whose RMP contest-winning chapbook The Passion of Woo & Isolde was the winner of the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Chapbook and was shortlisted for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize!…

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Monster Portraits by Del & Sofia Samatar has had amazing sales since its release in February and was Small Press Distribution’s #1 Bestselling Fiction title for March and April!…

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Over at Tor, Brit Mandelo writes: “Monster Portraits serves the function of philosophy, or poetry: the text makes offerings, sketches connections,…

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Over at Chicago Review of Books, reviewer Rachel Leon calls Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits a “masterpiece,” writing that “The marriage between artwork and prose in Monster Portraits results in a beautiful book and a moving,…

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The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Borrelli profiled Chicago-based typewriter poetry collective Poems While You Wait (whose proceeds all go to Rose Metal Press),…

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Storyological interviewed Monster Portraits author Sofia Samatar both for their print and podcast formats. You can read the interview here and/or give it a listen here.…

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Thanks to Genevieve Valentine for her insightful review of Monster Portraits at NPR Books!
Some highlights from the review:
“A prose poem with jolts of autobiography,…

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Many thanks to Amal El-Mohtar for her rave review of Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits in her “Otherworldly” column for the New York Times Book Review!…

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At Electric Lit, Monster Portraits author Sofia Samatar gathers some of the leading lights in speculative and hybrid literature—Matthew Cheney, Carmen Maria Machado,…

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