2024

Electric Lit 8 Short Story Collections that Play with Time — a listicle I put together of some time-bending faves

The Massachusetts Review 10 questions for Marguerite Sheffer

WGCU Gulf Coast Life Book Club w. Cary Barbor Marguerite Sheffer, The Man in the Banana Trees

Chills at Will Podcast w. Peter Riehl Episode 264 with Maggie Sheffer, Author of the Award-Winning Collection, The Man in the Banana Trees, and Master of the Weird, the Offbeat, the Clever, the Poignant, and the Resonant

Word Weaver Podcast w. Louise Claire Johnson Ch. 94: Marguerite Sheffer, Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, on The Man in the Banana Trees

Antigravity Magazine [Interview by Paula Abieta] What Keeps Marguerite Sheffer Up at Night?

Southern Review of Books [Interview by Bradley Sides] Linking Grief and Joy: An Interview with Marguerite Sheffer on “The Man in the Banana Trees”

Write or Die [Interview by Corinne Cordasco-Pak] Marguerite Sheffer: On Rejection, Experimentation, the Power of Short Stories, and Her Debut Collection “The Man in the Banana Trees”

Electric Lit The Most Exciting Debut Short Story Collections of 2024

Debutiful The Best Debut Books of 2024

Southern Review of Books The Best Southern Books of November 2024

Lit Hub [Interview by Jane Ciabattari] Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

Great Day Louisiana Meet the Author of a New Collection of Short Stories

Writer’s Digest [Interview] These Stories Are an Intimate Map of What Scares Me

Largehearted Boy Playlist for The Man in the Banana Trees

Lit Hub Oliver Sacks! Dante! Queer folktales! 20 new books out today

Our Culture 11 Books We’re Excited to Read in November 2024

Louisiana Life Select Stories: Tales of hope, history and memory by Christopher Louis Romaguera

Short Story Today [Podcast] Episode 116 - Marguerite Sheffer: “The Observer’s Cage” 

Foreword Reviews Review: The Man in the Banana Trees

Publishers Weekly Review: The Man in the Banana Trees

Bookin’ w/ Jason Jeffries [Podcast] Episode 304: Bookin’ w/ Marguerite Sheffer

Poets & Writers Newsletter [Interview] Winners on Winning-

Shelf Awareness Starred Review: The Man in the Banana Trees

Debutiful The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2024 

Reactor Magazine Revealing The Man in the Banana Trees by Marguerite Sheffer

Chautauqua Institute Twelve Emerging Writers Named Finalists for 2024 Chautauqua Janus Prize

Smokelong Quarterly [Interview] Smoke & Mirrors With Marguerite Sheffer by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh

2023

From the Earth to the Stars (Asimov’s Blog) Q&A With Marguerite Sheffer - November 2023

Barrelhouse Design Thinking: Barrelhousing with Conference Session Leaders Marguerite Sheffer and Corinne Cordasco — Sept 2023

The Cosmic Background From LP Kindred - July 2023

Chill Subs Conversations and Connections: A Lit Conference Review by Sarah Tollok — June 2023

The Adroit Journal Announcing the Adroit Journal’s 2023 Djanikian & Veasna So Scholars! — April 2023