SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY, in a Suomen Antropologi review, is lauded as "remain[ing] the most influential work in critical urban geography precisely because it opened up the space for a more radical reading of urban processes."

In a post on the blog On the Seawall, poet Jake Adam York praises fellow poet "Iain Haley Pollock's debut volume SPIT BACK A BOY. . . .[a]s a shapeshifter that keeps saying, in so many different ways, how varied, how complex the African-American poetic idiom is, how complex the American poetic idiom is."

Amina Gautier, winner of the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, is reviewed along with three other fiction writers in the Spring 2012 edition of The Georgia Review: "[T]he stories in AT-RISK constitute a strong, promising performance and suggest that much more excellent work lies ahead. . . .Baxter, Sterling, and Gautier, in particular, write tales that are memorable precisely because they have an authentic texture that helps, in O'Connor's formulation, make actual the mysterious position of our lives on earth."