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