“Pease’s prose demands attention and refuses to let readers avert their gazes from the near-constant sense of approaching disaster, a steady thrum of quiet doom”   Kirkus Reviews

“[Pease’s] stories are at times dizzying and dark with a hint of dread, but also rich with texture, voice and wild beauty....powerful and exacting, funny and fierce—like Flannery O’Connor, but not too much like her.”    --   Ploughshares blog, review by Amber Wheeler Bacon, March 15, 2019

“Pease writes with a hypnotic prose that features a modern, truncated style and love for imagery....With so many individuals mired by circumstances beyond their control, it would be easy for these stories to turn into a litany of hopelessness. But Pease gives the characters the glimmer of hype, the possibility that their aching desires might come true.”  Virginia Living Magazine review by Bill Glose, December, 2019.

additional press:

Essay in Electric Literature recommending literature about spirituality:

https://electricliterature.com/7-books-about-conflicted-spirituality/

Interview in The Rumpus:

https://therumpus.net/2019/09/27/the-rumpus-interview-with-emily-w-pease/