Cover and Book Trailer for A Bright and Pleading Dagger
We are thrilled to reveal the letterpress cover of Nicole Rivas’s contest-winning chapbook, A Bright and Pleading Dagger, as well as the video book trailer for the chapbook.…
Monster Portraits at Bustle and Women on Writing
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,…
The Passion of Woo & Isolde Wins the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award
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!…
Monster Portraits Becomes SPD #1 Fiction Bestseller
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!…
Monster Portraits reviewed at Tor and Weird Fiction Review
Over at Tor, Brit Mandelo writes: “Monster Portraits serves the function of philosophy, or poetry: the text makes offerings, sketches connections,…
Monster Portraits covered by Chicago Review of Books, Third Coast, and Grab the Lapels
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,…
Poems While You Wait is profiled in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Borrelli profiled Chicago-based typewriter poetry collective Poems While You Wait (whose proceeds all go to Rose Metal Press),…
Monster Portraits covered by Whurk and Storyological
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.…
Monster Portraits Reviewed at NPR
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,…
Monster Portraits in the New York Times Book Review
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!…