Cerise Press


Cerise Press, an international online journal based in the United States and France, builds cross-cultural bridges by featuring artists and writers in English and translations, with an emphasis on French and Francophone works. Co-founded by Sally Molini, Karen Rigby, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain in 2009, Cerise Press hopes to serve as a gathering force where imagination, insight, and conversation express the evolving and shifting forms of human experience.

Named among the “Best of Magazines 2009″ by the Library Journal, Cerise Press features poetry, translations, fiction, essays, photography, art, reviews and interviews. Selections have been reprinted in Best of the Web 2010 (Dzanc Books), Verse Daily, and Powell’s Books Review-a-Day.

Cerise Press

Selected Reviews


Gary Saul, Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture
The Writer, February 2012

“Circuitous Means, Bracing Austerity: On Allison Titus & Shane McCrae”
Denver Quarterly, Fall 2011, Volume 46, Number 1

Nappa, Mike, 77 Reasons Why Your Book Was Rejected: And How to Be Sure It Won’t Happen Again!
The Writer, November 2011

Marita Golden, ed., The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing
The Writer, June 2011

Joseph O’Connor, Ghost Light
Open Letters Monthly, February 2011

Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision
The Rumpus, January 10, 2011

ForeWord Reviews, 2010-2012
High Country News, 2010-2011
Bookslut, 2010
Bookbrowse, 2008-2012

Lorraine Johnson, City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing
Next American City, Issue 29 Winter 2010

Ken Chen, Juvenilia
Rain Taxi, Vol. 15 No. 2, Summer 2010 (#58)
REVIEW-A-DAY powells.com

Ernest Farrés, Edward Hopper
Words Without Borders, March 2010
REVIEW-A-DAY powells.com
NBCC FEATURED REVIEW June 15, 2010

Selected Interviews


Interview with Dilruba Ahmed | TriQuarterly Online
Interview with Lightsey Darst | TriQuarterly Online
Means of Transport, Medieval Mind: Dialogue with Angie Estes | Cerise Press