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Liana Holmberg
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Liana Holmberg is editor in chief at Red Bridge Press, which publishes writing that risks in books and online at Rivet journal. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the Academy of American Poets anthology New Voices, The Rumpus, LITnIMAGE, decomP magazinE, Necessary Fiction, Hawai`i Review, Manoa and Honolulu Weekly.

Selected Publications

FICTION
And He Shall Have Dominion - In LITnIMAGE
How It Ended - In decomP magazinE (with audio)
Postcards - Honorable Mention, Honolulu Magazine short story contest

POETRY
Aunt Ida's Box - Academy of American Poets prize winner. Published in the anthology New Voices.
Surface Area - In sPARKLE & bLINK (with video)
Paypah Luau: Fif'teent Ammenment - In Hawai‘i Review.

NONFICTION
The Rumpus - The Rumpus Interview with Ethel Rohan
Necessary Fiction - Risk and Writing: A roundtable conversation with Red Bridge Press 
Manoa - Book Review: Phantom Limb by Janet Sternburg - In The Mystified Boat: Postmodern fiction from China from Manoa. (Review quoted here.)

Honolulu Weekly
Cover Stories: 
  • “Talking Trash” Waste management and recycling
  • “Wines & Misdemeanors” Wine collectors and import laws
Features: 
  • “Concrete Violations” Clean Air Act violations
  • “Hurricane Season” Profile of writer Sia Figiel
  • “Bohemian Rhapsody” Interview with writer Kathleen Norris
  • “Beach Bomb” Movie review of “The Beach”

READINGS & INTERVIEWS
Click to watch the video of me reading Surface Area at Supper Club, San Francisco, for the Quiet Lightning literary series.
Listen to a radio interview on Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour about the launch of Red Bridge Press.
Readings of original fiction at Creative Writing Series, U. Hawai‘i

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Reportage: Stories and Poems - MA thesis (citation)
Crossing Borders: Science and Aesthetics - Paper given at College of  Languages, Linguistics, and Literature Conference, U. Hawai‘i.
Preparing Art for Publication - American Society for Cell Biology Newsletter