raised by ferns

CONVERSATION, LIVE  with Katie Campbell, KUOW Book Club, Seattle Public Library- August 20, 2026

INTERVIEW with Lesley Bannatyne, BLOOM– August 2026

INTERVIEW with Anna Chotlos, New Ohio Review– June 2026

INTERVIEW with Gabriela Denise Frank, THE RUMPUS– June 2026

INTERVIEW with Shelli Rottschafer, South Broadway Press– April 2026

INTERVIEW with Erica Reid, Cincinnati Review– April 2026

REVIEW, Lisa Laughlin in North American Review – Mar. 13, 2026

INTERVIEW with Maya Jewell Zeller by Kristen Rabe of Foreword Reviews– Mar. 12, 2026

CWU News: English professor’s published memoir met with critical acclaim – Mar 9, 2026

PODCAST, The Write Question with Lauren Korn, Montana Public Radio: Maya Jewell Zeller publishes unfurling, rhizomatic memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’ – Mar. 5, 2026

NEWS COVERAGE, The Inlander, Maya Jewell Zeller’s new memoir, Raised by Ferns, teaches readers to embrace their past selves – Mar. 4, 2026

PODCAST, Spokane Public Radio, “Trusting women’s stories: Memoirist Maya Jewell Zeller on poverty, privilege, and gibbous moons,” interview with Eliza Billingham, Mar. 1, 2026

REVIEW, Kirkus Review– Mar. 3, 2026

REVIEW, Foreword Reviews, Starred- Mar. 2026

NEWS COVERAGE, Megan Dhein of The Spokesman-Review, ‘A telling of a real story’: Maya Jewell Zeller’s ‘Raised by Ferns’ to be released in March- Mar. 1, 2026

NEWS COVERAGE, WWU News by Frances Padgett: Flourish and Rot: Alumna Maya Jewell Zeller publishes memoir ‘Raised by Ferns’: Zeller’s story examines rootlessness, poverty, poetry and privilege – Feb. 27, 2026

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ON OUT TAKES/ GLOVE BOX

Here’s a review by Stephanie Burt in Cleveland Review of Books.

Here’s a review by Alina Stefanescu in Pleiades.

Here’s a review by Joely Fitch in Fugue Journal. 

Or check out this INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN KORN, MONTANA PUBLIC RADIO (FALL 2023). 

Listen to a CONVERSATION WITH EJ IANNELLI, Spokane Public Radio (Fall 2023).

PRESS RELEASE FOR out takes/ glove box, NEW COLLECTION! (Fall 2023): Press Release ZELLER out takes glove box Nov 2023

I’m also grateful to Central Washington University’s David Leder for the kind coverage.  

ON ALCHEMY FOR CELLS & OTHER BEASTS

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Fall 2022 Radio interview with Lauren Korm on The Write Question, featuring co-editor Sharma Shields, for our Scablands Books Anthology, Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest. 

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