Press
2025
Episode #180: Sacrificial Animals with Kailee Pedersen
Sley House Presents (Podcast), 2025
Voice, Violence & Visceral Fiction: Briana Cox and Kailee Pedersen on Craft
The Dark Mind (Podcast), 2025
Books of Horror: Live with Briana N. Cox and Kailee Pedersen
Books of Horror (Livestream), 2025
Gothic Fiction: A Starter Pack
The New York Times, 2025
Exploring Marginalized Voices in Horror with Briana Cox and Kailee Pedersen
Horror Humor Hunger (Podcast), 2025
Kailee Pedersen and The Silence of the Foxes
Talking Scared (Podcast), 2025
Kailee Pedersen on Sacrificial Animals
Anna Rose Reads (Podcast), 2025
The Best Paperbacks of August 2025
Barnes & Noble, 2025
Four Authors Win the 2024 Otherwise Award
Reactor, 2025
Otherwise Award Winners Announced | Book Pulse
Library Journal, 2025
2024 Otherwise Award Winners
Locus Magazine, 2025
Announcing the 2024 Otherwise Award winners!
Otherwise Award, 2025
Libby Book Awards Announces Finalists — See the List! (Exclusive)
People Magazine, 2025
Announcing the 2025 Libby Book Awards nominees!
Professional Book Nerds (Podcast), 2025
Announcing the finalists for the 2025 Libby Book Awards
LibbyLife, 2025
Junji Ito’s Tomie with Kailee Pedersen
The Scares That Shaped Us (Podcast), 2025
TBRCon 2025: The Debut Author Experience
TBRCon, 2025
2024
Looking Back at the Horrors of 2024 and Forecasting the Horrors of 2025
FEARMONGERS (Podcast), 2024
The Scares That Shaped Us: The Best of 2024 with Gabino Iglesias and Russell Falcon
The Scares That Shaped Us (Podcast), 2024
Talking Scared: The Best Scary Books of 2024
Talking Scared (Podcast), 2024
The Best Horror Books of 2024
Paste Magazine, 2024
Best Books for Adults 2024
New York Public Library, 2024
The Best Gothic Novels of 2024
CrimeReads, 2024
The Best Horror Books of 2024
Esquire, 2024
The Best Horror Books of 2024
Barnes & Noble, 2024
Best Horror of the Year (So Far)
The New York Times, 2024
Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)
Vulture, 2024
August’s Best Reviewed Fiction
LitHub, 2024
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month: August 2024
CrimeReads, 2024
3 New Horror Novels Full of Terrors That Are All Too Real
The New York Times, 2024
Kailee Pedersen’s Sacrificial Animals Is One of the Year’s Best Horror Debuts
Paste Magazine, 2024
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Book Marks, 2024
Poured Over: Kailee Pedersen on Sacrificial Animals
Poured Over Podcast (Barnes & Noble), 2024
The violence of rural life blends with the gravity of Chinese myth in the horror novel ‘Sacrificial Animals’
LA Times, 2024
15 New Books Coming in August
The New York Times, 2024
Our Most Anticipated Reads: August 2024
Criminal Element, 2024
Our Most Anticipated Books August 2024
Barnes & Noble, 2024
Discover the Biggest New Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror Reads of Summer
Goodreads, 2024
Most Anticipated Debuts 2024
Barnes & Noble, 2024
The Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2024
Paste Magazine, 2024
Our Most Anticipated Books of 2024
Book Riot, 2024
Audio Feature: Kailee Pedersen in Shō No. 3
Shō, 2024
2022
Interview with Kailee Pedersen
Blue Mountain Review, 2022
Asian American Chapbook Contest – Radio Interview
Dante’s Old South Radio Show, 2022
2018
Profile: Kailee Pedersen
Nebraska Authors, 2018
Contributor Interview: Kailee Pedersen
Midwest Review, 2018
2015
Student Spotlight: Kailee Pedersen ‘17 Expresses Herself in Many Genres
Columbia College Today, 2015
NAC announces individual awards in literature
Lincoln Journal-Star, 2015
2014 & earlier
Kailee Pedersen: Quarto Interview with Winner of Lena Dunham Nonfiction Contest
Quarto Magazine, 2014
Lincoln native wins $25,000 fellowship
Omaha World-Herald, 2013