by Variant Lit Team | Jan 18, 2026 | Interview, Variety Pack
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle is the author of the chapbook Black Wick: Selected Elegies (Variant Literature, 2021), which was a semifinalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest and a 2020 Chapbook Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press. Her full-length...
by Variant Lit Team | Oct 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems features cyclical variation in form (left-aligned lines in...
by Variant Lit Team | Sep 28, 2025 | Interview, Variety Pack
James R. Gapinski is the author of the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line, as well as the forthcoming short story collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes, which won the 2024 BOA Short Fiction Prize. They are the managing editor of Conium Press, a boutique literary...
by Variant Lit Team | May 28, 2025 | Interview, Variety Pack
Steven Espada Dawson is from East Los Angeles and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he serves as poet laureate. His poems “Waiter Park” and “Caldera” appeared in the Rehoming Remarkable Work issue of Variant Lit in Winter 2022. Steven’s debut poetry collection, Late...
by Variant Lit Team | Mar 24, 2025 | Interview, Variety Pack
Rosalind Goldsmith’s short story “Inside the House Inside” appeared in issue 8 of Variant Lit in Fall 2021. Rosalind’s debut fiction collection Inside the House Inside will be published by Ronsdale Press in April 2025 and available in the U.S. in May. It is currently...
by Variant Lit Team | Jan 15, 2025 | News, Variety Pack
We’re thrilled to share that Lannie Stabile’s poetry collection, When the Forest Finds You, has been reviewed by A.R. Arthur in Fahmidan. Ultimately, When the Forest Finds You is a collection that rejects easy resolutions, opting instead for a raw, unflinching...
