Paige Riehl

Paige Riehl is the author of the poetry collection Suspension (Terrapin Books, 2018) and the poetry chapbook Blood Ties (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications such as Artful Dodge, Crab Orchard Review, Water-Stone Review, Portland Review, and Meridian. She was a finalist for the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and winner of the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry. Currently a Contributing Editor for Midway Journal, she served for many years as Poetry Editor and as a volunteer poetry mentor for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She is an English faculty member at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Read more about Riehl here http://paigeriehl.com/

Interview with Tracy Youngblom about Because We Must (U of Massachusetts Press, 2025) and winner of the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Interview with Tracy Youngblom about Because We Must (U of Massachusetts Press, 2025) and winner of the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction

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PAIGE RIEHL: Tracy, first, congratulations on winning the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction! It’s so well-deserved! Thank you so much for speaking with me about your memoir Because We Must, which chronicles your experiences in the aftermath of a car accident that severely injured your youngest son, Elias. I was so incredibly moved by your writing—the adept ways you write… Read more →

Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

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PAIGE RIEHL: Thank you, Mona, for talking with me about your award-winning novel A Council of Dolls! Your novel is powerful and moving—a compelling story of family, coming-of-age, love, and historical and generational trauma. In A Council of Dolls, through the stories of three generations of women in one Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta family, readers are taken on a powerful historical and… Read more →

Interview with Claire Wahmanholm about Meltwater (Milkweed, 2023), nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry

Interview with Claire Wahmanholm about Meltwater (Milkweed, 2023), nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry

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PAIGE RIEHL: Thank you, Claire, for speaking with me about your fourth book of poetry, Meltwater, a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in poetry. Congratulations! I am so drawn to this collection for numerous reasons, one of which is the way you illustrate the complexities of existing as a person amid an ongoing… Read more →

Interview with Michael Torres about An Incomplete List of Names, a National Poetry Series winner selected by Raquel Salas Rivera

Interview with Michael Torres about An Incomplete List of Names, a National Poetry Series winner selected by Raquel Salas Rivera

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PAIGE RIEHL: Thank you, Michael, for taking time to talk about An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press, 2020). I was so thrilled for you when I saw that An Incomplete List of Names was a National Poetry Series winner. Your manuscript Homeboys with Slipped Halos was a finalist for the Lindquist and Vennum Prize for Poetry with Milkweed Editions… Read more →

Junior High

The damp rust-colored spot like a dry lily on the pink underwear, the ache in her middle, the smell of wet cement or leaves   decaying. Her best friend has a paper bag hidden in her locker, sealed with 20 staples at the folded top. In the semi-privacy   of the “Hiny-Hider” stall, the bag crackles, the noise echoing a… Read more →