We are thrilled to announce the Mentorship Fellows & Finalists for our 2019 Mentorship Lab! We received so many incredible applications from poets and writers for this program, which shows us just how much of a need there is for both mentorship and community within the field of emerging Asian American literature. We're so grateful to everyone who applied and shared their work with us.

Congratulations to our 2019 Mentorship Fellows:

Pik-Shuen Fung, Creative Nonfiction Fellow
Julie Ae Kim, Creative Nonfiction Fellow
Danielle Ola, Creative Nonfiction Fellow
Divya Nair, Fiction Fellow
Kimarlee Nguyen, Fiction Fellow
Shrima Pandey, Fiction Fellow
June Daowen Lei, Poetry Fellow
Ananya Kanai Shah, Poetry Fellow
Paul Aster-Stone Tsao, Poetry Fellow

We'd also like to congratulate the finalists of the Mentorship Lab.

Creative Nonfiction Finalists:

Hannah Bae
Julia Flasphaler
Yasmin Majeed
Shivani Radhakrishnan
Rajat Singh

Fiction Finalists:

Julia Chen
Vivek Gowda
Christie Louie
Aarti Monteiro
Tiffani Ren

Poetry Finalists:

Kiran Bath
Irene Hsu
Laimah Osman
Ayesha Raees
Mary Sun

You can learn more about our 2019 Mentorship Lab here. We're grateful to the Jerome Foundation, whose support made this program possible.