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August 2024

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Praise Kink,” Jess Yuan’s poem “Amtrak Again,” and Monica Youn’s interview with Diamond Forde was published in Issue 8 of Honey Literary.

Leena Aboutaleb’s poem “Portal: Cyclical” was featured as Poem of the Week on Split This Rock.

Brynn Saito’s conversation with Elizabeth Bolaños was published in Issue 49 of The Adroit Journal.

K-Ming Chang’s excerpt from Cecilia was published in Issue 49 of The Adroit Journal.

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “Adult Acne” was published in Issue 48 of The Adroit Journal.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Catalog of Shadows Cast in Different Kinds of Light” was published in Issue 48 of The Adroit Journal.

Ching-In Chen was announced as a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate.

July 2024

Ariel Chu’s short story “Antibachelorette" was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Our History Is Already Written (II): Chinatown (2019)” was published in Issue 19 of Apogee Journal. 

Jessica Abughattas’ poems “Eureka!” and “Cinema” were published in the July/August 2024 issue of Poetry Magazine. 

Asha Thanki’s debut novel A Thousand Times Before was released from Viking. 

Kiran Bath’s debut poetry collection Instructions for Banno was released from Kelsey Street Press. 

S. M. Sukardi’s short story “Year of the Rat” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Sunwoo Jeong’s short story “The Midnight Spa” was published in Uncanny Magazine.

Seema Yasmin’s debut novel Unbecoming was released from Simon & Schuster.

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s chapbook “Good Listener” was released from Frontier Poetry, the winner of their 2023 Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. 

William Pei Shih’s story “Amsterdam” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Aarti Monteiro’s story “Small Green Shoots” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Christie Louie’s short story “You Could Hear Splinters” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

June 2024

Pichchenda Bao’s poem “Whenever Anyone Tells Me I’m a Good Mother, I Want to Say” was published in Swwim.

Ghinwa Jawhari’s poems “Essential” and “Household” were published in Rusted Radishes.

Kazumi Chin’s poem “Nothing in the world belongs to me” was published in The Offing.

Sally Wen Mao’s short story “The Girl with Flies Coming Out Of Her Eyes” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Victoria Cho’s short story “A Recessive Trait” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman
20th Anniversary Summer Series

Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk’s short story “Our Cecilia” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

May 2024

Sejal Shah’s story “Ithaca Is Never Far” from her collection How to Make Your Mother Cry was excerpted in Literary Hub. 

Sally Wen Mao’s short story collection Ninetails was released from Penguin Books. 

Duy Đoàn’s poem “Leslie Cheung in A Chinese Ghost Story” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Terisa Siagatonu’s “Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org. 

Rajiv Mohabir’s “Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org. 

Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Unruly and Bittersweet, L.A.” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Joshua Nguyen’s poems “Ghazal: I wish, How I Wish,” “Spine Decompression Sonnet,” and “Nocturne: It’s the End Of It All, But I Still Felt The Most Lonely Before” were published in Issue 2 of Double Yolk. 

Joshua Nguyen’s poem “American Lục Bát Sonnet For Extracting Your Mother’s Gray Hair” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Justin Rovillos Monson’s poem “Burden of Proof (MTHRLSSSDGHTR remix)” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem “Ghazal” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s poem “Dear Body-” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story “Audition” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Arumandhira Howard’s poem “reverse tongue abecedarian” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Lo Kwa Mei-en’s poem “Speculative Song” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Troy Osaki’s poem “Our Archipelago” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Marianne Chan’s poem “Love Song for Kien” was published in Boulevard.

Ocean Vuong’s poem “Theology” was published in The New Yorker.

Michelle Peñaloza won the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award for her poetry collection All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems, which is forthcoming from Persea Books in 2025.

Stephanie Isan’s short story “Hey, Cam Club” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Ayesha Raees’ poem “I Call From Everywhere to Everywhere” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Lehua M. Taitano’s poem “When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Indrani Sengupta’s poem “creation myth” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Theo Legro’s poem “ALL THERE IS” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Sumita Chakraborty’s poem “The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Seven: ‘Love Poem with Prosopopoeia’” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Hala Alyan’s poem “Siri as Mother” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Shireen Madon’s poem “First Prayer” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Ina Cariño’s poem “I can’t afford a whole universe” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.

Arumandhira Howard’s poem “Postcard from somewhere without Allah” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.

Pichchenda Bao’s poem “One Refugee Poet’s Origin Story” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Seema Yasmin’s short story “All the Weddings We Have Ever Been To” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Angela Peñaredondo’s poem “harvest” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Jess Yuan’s poem “Composition” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Fady Joudah’s poem “Echo #76” was published in The Baffler.

Kiran Bath’s poems “How to dream in colour (Deepu),” “What holds you over (Gudi),” and “When asked to dance (Basanti)” were featured on Brooklyn Rail.

Andy Chen’s poem “Fairy Tale with Chinese Mother” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Iris A. Law’s poem “Examen in San Francisco” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.

Jordan Alam’s short story “Conviction” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

Sejal Shah’s book How To Make Your Mother Cry was released from West Virginia University Press.

April 2024

Chen Chen’s poems “recipe found in a winter boot,” “ode to completion & then some,” “Postsolsticemoodism,” “Corresponding with the Heterosexuals,” “Quintessence: the Soul (If It Exists),” “recipe for courage with a side of hot,” and “ode to definitions” were published in ONLY POEMS.

Chen Chen was named Poet of the Week and interviewed by ONLY POEMS.

Ava Chin’s memoir Mott Street, an ALA Notable Book, was released in paperback by Penguin Press.

Tariq Luthun’s poem “Field Notes” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “Palestine,” “Vancouver Ghazal With God and Orca,” “Moon Light,” and “A Mixed-Caste Queer Sings the Blues” were published in The Offing.

Seema Yasmin’s children’s book The ABCs of Queer History, illustrated by Lucy Kirk, was released from Workman Publishing.

Ghinwa Jawhari’s poem “the butcher” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.

Theo LeGro’s poem “The first time I pried a blade from your fist I told myself never again” was published in The Offing.

Kimberly Alidio was interviewed about her book Teeter and essay “On Being Porous” on the Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills podcast.

Fady Joudah was announced as the winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize by Poets & Writers.

Philip Metres’ article “In This Time of War: The Muse Refuses Silence” was published in the May/June 2024 issue of Poets & Writers.

Philip Metres’ poem “Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide” was published in Literary Hub.

Philip Metres’ book Fugitive/Refuge was released from Copper Canyon Press.

Hyejung Kook’s manuscript “Once is Not Enough” was a 2024 finalist for Wesleyan University Press’ Cardinal Poetry Prize.

Chrysanthemum’s poem “Biological Woman” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.

E.J. Koh’s The Liberators and C Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey were announced as finalists for the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “Bryde’s Whale,” “Fin Whale,” and “Pakicetus” were published in the Spring 2024 Issue of Sixth Finch.

Ina Cariño’s poem “The Stomach is the Origin of All Ghosts” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story “Tombs” was published in Issue 78 of American Short Fiction.

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story “Tunnels” was published in Joyland Magazine.

Shayok Misha Chowdhury was named a 2024 Whiting Award winner.

Divya Victor’s poem “Make/Do” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Fady Joudah’s poem “[...]” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Eddie Kim’s chapbook Tal’chum was a finalist for Harbor Review’s Chapbook Open Reading Period.

Chen Chen’s poem “To Whom It May Delight” was published on The Oxonian Review.

Sejal Shah’s essay “The Matter of Things” was published in the latest issue of Wellesley Magazine.

Sejal Shah won the 2024 March Danceness 2000s Edition Tournament with her essay “Serious Joy” about Amerie’s song “1 Thing.”

Jessica Abughattas, Hyejung Kook, Eugenia Leigh, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Joshua Nguyen, and Monica Sok’s poems were published in the anthology Braving the Body, co-edited by Pichenda Bao, Nicole Callihan, and Jennifer Franklin.

Joseph Han’s debut novel Nuclear Family 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Creative Writing: Prose.

Jess Yuan’s debut collection Slow Render was released from Airlie Press.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, No‘u Revilla, Kazim Ali, Monica Youn, Paisley Rekdal, and Paul Tran’s poems were published in the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón.

March 2024

Hyejung Kook’s poem “Charm Against Blighted Ovum” was published in the latest issue of NELLE.

Hyejung Kook’s poem “prayer for healing” was featured on The Healing Verse Poetry Line.

Jess Yuan’s poem “Aquaculture Quartet” was published in Issue #45 of Cleaver.

Kimberly Alidio’s book Teeter won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry.

Sally Wen Mao’s debut story collection Ninetails: Nine Tales was included in Polygon’s most anticipated books for the spring.

Philip Metres and Jessica Jacobs’ interview in conversation with each other was published in Image.

Philip Metres’ translation of “The Well Bucket” by Dmitri Psurtsev was published in the latest issue of Waxwing.

Shamala Gallagher’s poem “‘The New York Times’ Says Aloe Is a Hoax” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.

Diana Khoi Nguyen is the March poet-in-residence at The Poetry Clinic.

R. A. Villanueva was announced as the 2024 Alice James Book Award winner for his manuscript, A Holy Dread.

Angela Peñaredondo was interviewed about their book nature felt but never apprehended on The Offing.

Jenny Tinghui Zhang was announced as a 2024 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation.

Chen Chen’s poems “going down singing” and “Crybaby Cowboy” were published in the Ohio State University’s The Journal.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion was named a 2024 Headlands Artist-in-Residence.

Patrick Rosal’s poem “Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Sejal Shah’s essay “Serious Joy” was published in March Danceness.

Sarah Thankam Mathews’s “A recipe for E’s avail” and Mayukh Sen’s “Julie, my child” were published in the inaugural issue of Veena.

Na Mee’s creative nonfiction pieces “This, right now,” “10,000 pieces,” and “The Last Hug” were published in Volume 49, No. 2/3 of Feminist Studies.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Whale Aria was announced as a 2023 finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in poetry.

Hazem Fahmy’s essay “The Zone of Interest: The banal dreams of Nazi settler colonialism” was published on Middle East Eye.

Laura Chow Reeve’s graphic nonfiction piece “Another Apocalypse” was published in The Offing.

Helene Achanzar’s poem “O My Worry, I Reach for Your Hand” was selected as a finalist for Best New Poets’ 2023 anthology.

Megan Pinto’s poem “Harvest” was published in Issue No. 37 of the LA Review of Books.

E.J. Koh was featured in the University of Washington Magazine for her debut novel The Liberators.

Iris Law’s poetry manuscript The Color of Morning was selected as a semifinalist for Copper Nickel and Milkweed Edition’s Jake Adam Young prize.

Troy Osaki’s poem “Reverse Lightning Rally at the US Embassy” was published in Issue 27 of Sugar House Review.

Chrysanthemum’s poem “Alias” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.

February 2024

Sruthi Narayanan’s short story “Question 18” was published in The Offing.

W. Todd Kaneko’s book Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored by Amorak Huey, was published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Em Dial’s poetry collection In the Key of Decay is forthcoming from Anstruther Books.

Matthew Salesses’s novel The Sense of Wonder is now available in trade paperback format.

Fady Joudah was interviewed by Aria Aber for The Yale Review.

Fady Joudah’s poem “[...]” was published in The Yale Review.

Fady Joudah was interviewed about his forthcoming collection [...] in The Boston Review.

MT Vallarta’s poem “Neighborhood Tour” was published in Issue 4 of Shō Poetry Journal. 

Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Litany for My Father” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.

Arumandhira Howard’s poem“6-month chip” was published on The Offing.

Arumandhira Howard’s poems “no planet for bad bitches” and “Home Invasion Punnett” and Theo LeGro’s poems “On My 34th Birthday I Steal Another Year,” “Dear John: The End,” “Dear John,” and “Dear John: Waiting” were published in Issue 7 of Honey Literary.

Matthew Salesses’s essay on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction was published on Literary Hub.

Philip Metres and Preeti Parikh were awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Poetry.

K-Ming Chang’s story “My Mother’s Stalker” was published in Guernica.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem “Shadow Study” was published in The Atlantic.

Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Dusk at the Codependence Inn” was published in the Museum of Americana.

Ploi Pirapokin’s story “If You Ask Me, I Shall Come (Kestallen, tuluvanye)” was published on Hive Mind.

Bobuq Sayed’s A Brief History of Australian Terror was released from Common Room.

Noʻu Revilla’s poems “In the future I write your name” and “Grandma gets flowers, granddaughter cuts grass,” and Tariq Luthun’s poem “You Can’t Call it Failure” were published in Volume 97, No. 2 of Prairie Schooner.

Theo LeGro’s poem “If it’s Not the Shape of Your Hands that Makes them Shake, Even the Wind is Poison” was published in the Raleigh Review.

Hanae Jonas’s debut poetry collection Softly Undercover was released from Mad Creek Books.

Lucy Tan’s short story “Falling Action in Hoboken” was published in the February 2024 issue of The Sun.

Michelle Peñaloza’s poems and collage were published in The Seventh Wave’s “On Tending” anthology.

Na Mee’s poem “The Fish” was published in Places Journal.

Na Mee’s essays “This, right now,” “10,000 pieces,” and “The Last Hug” were published in Volume 49, No. 2-3 of Feminist Studies.

K-Ming Chang’s short story “The Tornado” was published in Vol. XLVI, No. 1 of The Kenyon Review.

Duy Đoàn’s poems “Oxytocin” and “Buddy and Butterscotch, Water Goat in the Year of the Water Snake” were published in Vol. XLVI, No. 1 of The Kenyon Review.

Tiana Nobile’s poetry was featured in The New Orleans Arts Rag Volume 3: Breaking Down Boundaries.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion was a 2024 awardee of Asian American Arts Alliance’s What Can We Do? artist grant program.

Sahar Muradi’s poem “Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues” was featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown Show podcast.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Magic Trick” was published in Issue 92 of The Cortland Review.

Franny Choi has been appointed the Northampton Poet Laureate for the 2024–2026 term.

Diana Khoi Nguyen was interviewed about Root Fractures for the Between the Covers podcast.

January 2024

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem “Mehfil” was featured as Poem of the Week at Split This Rock’s The Quarry.

Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City won the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Ava Chin’s memoir Mott Street was named a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023, San Francisco Chronicle’s Favorite Nonfiction of 2023, Library Journal Best Memoir of 2023, and a 2024 ALA Notable Book.

Philip Metres’s interview of Suncere Ali Shakur was published in To The Best of Our Knowledge.

Philip Metres’s interview on his forthcoming book Fugitive / Refuge was published in Green Linden Press.

Philip Metres’s poem “What Form Can Hold: The Pantoum as Vessel of/through Trauma” was published in Volume 53, Number 1 of The American Poetry Review.

Diana Khoi Nguyen reads her poem  “Đổi Mới” from Root Fractures for Poets & Writers. She was also interviewed for their Ten Questions series.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s collection Root Fractures was released from Scribner Books.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s essay “An Ode to I-5” was published in The Common.

George Abraham and Sarah Aziza’s “Letters From the Apocalypse” was published in The Nation. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “Adult Acne” and Jaz Sufi’s poem “Catalog of Shadows Cast In Different Kinds of Light” were published in Issue 48 of The Adroit Journal.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s collection Root Fractures was included in Literary Hub’s roundup of poetry books to read in 2024.

Ching-In Chen was appointed the new poet laureate for 2024-25 of Redmond, Washington.

Monica Ong was awarded a United States Artists fellowship.

Chen Chen’s poem “Midwinter, Missing Everybody” was published in Blue Mountain Review.

Ina Cariño’s poem “Keep Sweet” was published in Split Lip Magazine.

George Abraham, Hala Alyan, Tariq Luthun, and Fady Joudah had their poems featured in AAWW: The Margins’ folio of Love Poems by Poets of Palestinian Heritage.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Unforgiven Etymology” was published in the winter 2024 issue of Chestnut Review.

E. J. Koh was interviewed by World Literature Today.

Arumhandira’s poems “Hands” and “Without my enemy who would I be” were published in the latest issue of the Boiler Journal.

George Abraham was interviewed in the article “How Poetry Became a Tool of Resistance for Palestinians “ in TIME.

R. A. Villanueva’s poem “This dark is the same dark as when you close” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “The Earthlings” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Minted” was published in AAWW: The Margins.

Ocean Vuong’s poem “To My Dog Tofu During the Blizzard of December 18th 2020” was published in Guernica.

Hala Alyan’s poem “Revision” was published in Guernica.

Christine Shan Shan Hou has two new poems, “My Poor Clitoris” and “Young Leopard Pillow on the Run,” published in the latest issue of Nat. Brut. These poems are part of a larger ekphrastic and reverse ekphrastic project with Vi Khi Nao.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “Northern Resident Orca” was published in Issue 47 of carte blanche.

William Pei Shih’s short story “The Paris of China” was published in the Boston Review.

Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was named one of The Poetry Question’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023.

Sally Wen Mao’s debut story collection NINETAILS: Nine Tales is forthcoming from Penguin Random House and is now available for pre-order.

Sejal Shah’s story collection How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions was named one of Electric Lit’s 75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024.

Duy Đoàn’s poem “Oxytocin” was published in Vol. XLVI, No. 1 of the Kenyon Review.

Bobuq Sayed’s short story “Ground Zero” was published in Guernica.

Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s poem “Feast” was published in AAWW: The Margins.

MT Vallarta’s collection What You Refuse to Remember was released from Small Harbor Publishing.

December 2023

Preeti Parikh’s poem “A Dye, A Weal, A Spell” was published in Beloit Poetry Journal.

Preeti Parikh’s poems “The [        ] of Cloth” and “Corpus | Divine” were published in The Cincinnati Review.

Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was named one of Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2023.

Sejal Shah’s second book How to Make Your Mother Cry: fictions is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press and is now available for pre-order.

Sayuri Ayers’s essay “Sing, Circle, Leap: Tracing the Movements of the American Lyric Essay” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by TriQuarterly Magazine.

Philip Metres’s interview on his book Shrapnel Maps and translations of poetry by Dimitri Psurtsev were published in Diode.

Theo LeGro’s review of Exit Signs on a Seaside Highway by Lara Atallah was published in Vagabond City Lit.

Theo LeGro’s Poet of the Week featured poem “Inheritance” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Brooklyn Poets.

Jessie Li’s story “Mouth and Heart” was selected as runner-up for StoryQuarterly’s 2023 Fiction Prize and will be published in 2024.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Sometimes Oral History Comes Off Recorder as Poem or, Birth Story” was published as Poem of the Week in Split This Rock.

E.J. Koh was interviewed by Otherppl.

E.J. Koh’s excerpt from her debut novel The Liberators was published in LitHub.

November 2023

Rona Luo’s commissioned visual poem is on view at the Southbank Centre’s A Great Sense of Space exhibit in London through February 2024.

Bobuq Sayed’s profile on Arundhati Roy was published by Liminal.

Fady Joudah and Tariq Luthun were interviewed for NPR’s Code Switch.

Stephanie Isan’s short story “The Last Thing She Touched” was published in Issue 45 of Bellevue Literary Review, who also interviewed her about the piece.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder was announced as a recipient of a 2024 NYSCA grant for her project "Composing the Ghazal: Carrying Forward a Literary and Musical Tradition.”

Shelley Wong’s poem “A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village” was featured as poem-of-the-day by Poets.org.

Rammel Chan is one of six playwrights announced to Goodman Theatre’s 2023 New Stages Residency.

Sejal Shah’s essays “Thank you,” “Curriculum,” and “Deluxe” featured in a column of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.

Craig Santos Perez’s book from unincorporated territory [åmot] won a 2023 National Book Award in Poetry. 

Indrani Sengupta’s poem was published in the Fall 2023 issue of Pleiades Magazine.

E.J. Koh was featured in The Seattle Times for her debut novel The Liberators.

E.J. Koh’s The Liberators was reviewed by The L.A. Times. 

Jordan Alam is writing a monthly column “The Therapist Is In” for The Seattle Times.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Ode to Crispy Salmon Skin” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by Honey Literary.

Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is one of Audible's Best Memoirs of 2023. 

Jane Wong was interviewed by Apogee.

Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

From From by Monica Youn, Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie, and Mott Street by Ava Chin were included in Time Magazine’s list of “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2023.”

Na Mee’s essay “What She Kept” was published in The Rumpus.

Theo LeGro’s poem “Sex After the Mastectomy” was published in Up the Staircase Quarterly. 

E.J. Koh was interviewed about her new book The Liberators on NPR’s All Things Considered. 

Theo LeGro’s poem “Rituals of the Damned” was published on the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network.

E.J. Koh’s novel The Liberators was released from Tin House.

Willie Lin’s collection Conversations Among Stones was released from BOA editions.

Andy Chen’s poem “Where I am White” won a 2024 Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses. 

Angie Sijun Lou, William Shih, Naomi Shuyama-Gómez, and Shruti Swamy were longlisted for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize.

October 2023

K-Ming Chang’s novel Organ Meats was released from Penguin Random House.

K-Ming Chang was interviewed by the Granum Foundation for their podcast The Artist Statement.

J. Mae Barizo was interviewed by Kyle Lucia Wu, about her collection Tender Machines, for BOMB Magazine.

Moeko Fujii’s article “The Imagination of the Tiny” was featured in Orion Magazine.

Annesha Mitha’s short story “The Waiting Room” was published by Electric Literature.

Niv Sekar was announced as a The Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil 2023-2024 Emerging Writer Fellow.

George Abraham’s poem “To the Watchlist” was published on The Drift.

Jenny Xie’s novel Holding Pattern was listed on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 (So Far).

Jessica Abughattas and Marianne Chan have poems published in Issue 6 of Brink Literary.

E.J. Koh was profiled in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers.

Jennifer Chang was awarded the Levinson Prize for her poems “Dialogues (Against Literature)” and “The Age of Unreason,” and Michelle Peñaloza was awarded the Frederick Bock Prize for her poems “Utang Na Loob” and “All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems” from the July/August 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “The Atheist Performs Augury” was published in the first issue of Frozen Sea.

F. Douglas Brown’s poetry piece Hot Air Love was published in LARB Quarterly, no. 39: Air.

Theo LeGro’s poem featured as Poet of the Week by Brooklyn Poets.

Sahar Muradi’s collection Octobers was released from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky, translated by Philip Metres, was released from Green Linden Press. This book was the winner of the Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize. 

Shelley Wong’s As She Appears was a finalist, and Solmaz Sharif’s Customs was a winner for the 42nd Annual Northern California Book Awards in poetry.

Muriel Leung’s “The Dates,” a grouping of three prose poems, was published in Issue 165 of BOMB Magazine.

Mai Der Vang’s story “Injury After Another” was awarded a 2022 Prairie Schooner Prize.

September 2023

Nay Saysourinho’s chapbook The Capture of Krao Farini was released from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Jenny Xie was interviewed by Jen Lue, about her debut novel Holding Pattern, for BOMB Magazine.

George Abraham was interviewed by them.

Aria Aber’s poem “Oakland in Rain” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Tania James was longlisted for The National Book Award in Fiction for Loot.

Timothy Moore’s fiction chapbook I Will Teach You Retribution was released from Long Day Press.

Cathy Linh Che was announced as a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Nonfiction Literature for 2023.

Jasmine Sawers’s short story “Tea with the Queen” won first prize for the 2023 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction.

Zoe Leonard’s short story “No Way Out But Down” was published in Sixfold.

Rajiv Mohabir’s new collection Whale Aria was released from Four Way Books.

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s chapbook The Skin is a Warm Coat won Frontier Poetry’s Breakthrough Chapbook Contest and will be published in spring 2024.

W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Self-Portrait as Flash Gordon [Emperor Ming in Love Remix]” was published in Diode.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “spell for trans safety (i)” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by Bellingham Review.

Joseph Han’s short story “Please Be Patient, Student Driver” was published in The Sun Magazine.

CE Shue’s book Bridge of Knots made the Small Press Distribution best-sellers list.

Sumita Chakraborty’s poems “The B-Sides of the Golden Record: Track Six,” “Track Eight,” “Track Nine,” “Hidden Track,” and “Track Ten” were published in Volume 64, Issue 3 of the Massachusetts Review.

최 Lindsay | Lindsay Choi’s poem “From ‘Who Can Recall His Past Lives’” was published in Changes Review.

Nghiem Tran’s debut novella We’re Safe When We’re Alone was released from Coffee House Press.

Oliver de la Paz’s The Diaspora Sonnets, Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [åmot], Paisley Rekdal’s West: A Translation, and Monica Youn’s From From were announced as the longlist nominees for the 2023 National Book Awards for Poetry.

Angie Sijun Lou’s short story “Double Happiness” and Na Mee’s short story “9A” were selected as finalists for Narrative Magazine’s Spring 2023 Story Contest.

Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Beauty,” Franny Choi’s poem “September, 2001,” and Jess X. Snow’s poem "Gazing at the Grand Canyon from the Moon" were published in the Winter 2023, Volume 44, Number 2 issue of the Indiana Review.

Christine Shan Shan Hou and Vi Khi Nao’s ekphrastic project “The Temple of Inconvenient Sisterhood” was published in Ex-Puritan.

E.J. Koh’s forthcoming novel The Liberators was included in Literary Hub’s list of “25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall.”

Chen Chen’s poems “The Abyss Gives Us a Pep Talk as We Continue to Fall” and “Personal Pizza Personal Poem” were published in the latest issue of Hooligan Magazine.

Brynn Saito’s poem “On Trying to Have a Child” was published in Gulf Coast Magazine.

Muriel Leung’s review “On Muscle Memory: Muriel Leung and Jenny Liou in conversation” was published in Gulf Coast Magazine. 

Eugenia Leigh’s essay “Off the Medication: New Year’s Eve 2019” was published in Issue 12 of the Bennington Review.

Ching-In Chen’s poem “Breath for Metal” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Iris Law’s poem “My father wears the night sky on his back” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by Good River Review. 

Kimiko Hahn was awarded a 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

Kazim Ali’s book of new and selected poems Sukun was published from Wesleyan University Press.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion published his illustrated poetry chapbook remembering (y)our light.

August 2023

Purvi Shah was interviewed about her 2022 Writer’s Digest Poetry Award winning poem "Helix of the gift, lineage song," which was published in the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest.

Tiana Nobile’s poem “Show Me A Mother” was published in the August 2023 issue of Adi Magazine.

Juniper Viernes’s creative nonfiction essay on the film We’re All Going to the World’s Fair was published in vol. 27 of wig wag.

Monica Ong and Michelle Peñaloza were named 2023 Poetry Award Winners and awarded a grant by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Chrysanthemum was named a 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

Chen Chen’s poems “Rough Chop” and “Weekend” were published on the Poetry Society of New York. 

Brynn Saito’s collection Under a Future Sky is out now from Red Hen Press.

W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Self-Portrait as Flash Gordon [Emperor Ming in Love Remix]” was published in volume 16 number 2 of Diode Poetry Journal.

R.A. Villanueva’s collection Reliquaria was featured on The Bridge as Book of the Week.

Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain was reviewed by Southern Indiana Review.

W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Naming the Birds” was published in Orion Magazine’s anthology Spark Birds.

Chen Chen’s essay “The Face of a Poem” for the Harriet Books blog was published on Poetry Foundation.

Sally Wen Mao’s collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was featured on Page One of the September/October 2023 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Sally Wen Mao was featured on Poets & Writers for the research which inspired her collection The Kingdom of Surfaces.

Theo LeGro’s poems “Stage 2,” “Death follows me in and out of every door,” and “Nudes before the mastectomy” were published in SARKA.

Jai Dulani’s chapbook AMASS was chosen as a finalist in the 2023 DIAGRAM NMP Chapbook Contest.

Kimberly Alidio was interviewed on Nightboat Books for her collection Teeter.

Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Chore Dress” was published in The Yale Review.

Jane Wong’s poem “Three Rabbits” was published in Sierra.

MT Vallarta was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Rising Poet Prize by Palette Poetry.

Soham Patel’s new collection all one in the end—/water was released from Delete Press.

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “It Is 6 p.m. on the 2 Train Downtown” and interview was published on Brooklyn Poets as Brooklyn Poets’s Poet of the Week.

Troy Osaki was interviewed by Nimra Ahmad for Crosscut.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “The Belladonna of Sadness” from her collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was featured on Literary Hub.

Oliver de la Paz’s interview with David Roderick and Philip Metres’s translation of “To Y.K.” by Sergey Gandlevskey were published in Issue 46 of The Adroit Journal.

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed on S2 E11 of the Postpartum Production podcast and rob mclennan’s blog about her poetry collection Bianca.

Stephanie Isan’s poem “Unsung” was published in Epiphany.

Noah Arhm Choi’s poems “Note to Past Self on What the Doctor Will Neglect to Tell You about T” and “How to Burn a Bra in a Brooklyn Apartment”, Chen Chen’s poems “ode to the gayest part of me,” “End of September,” and “nature facts,” Joshua Nguyen’s poems “‘You Sank My Destroyer!’ How Harold & Kumar Goes To White Castle Influences The Poet’s Relationship to Assimilation, The Body, & Whiteness” and “American Lục Bát For The Thịt Kho I Make For My Loved Ones” and Michelle Peñaloza’s four collages “Haw Flake Lola,” “Skyflake Lola,” “Lola Werthers,” and “I Quite Lola” were published in Issue 6 of Honey Literary.

Chen Chen’s poem “have you eaten yet” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Minted” from her new collection Kingdom of Surfaces was featured on AAWW: The Margins.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion and Chrysanthemum were selected as finalists for the 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowships from the Poetry Foundation.

Asha Thanki’s short story "Paloma” was published in Volume 34, Number 3 of The Gettysburg Review.

Tarfia Faizullah’s poem “Poem Without Love” was featured as poem-of-the-day by Poets.org.

Sally Wen Mao’s collection The Kingdom of Surfaces is out now from Graywolf Press.

Aria Aber’s poem “Dawn” was featured in the 38th annual issue of Provincetown Arts.

July 2023

“Keeping Time,” a collage of conversations between Shruti Swamy and Meng Jin was published on AAWW: The Margins.

Philip Metres’ poem “Prayer” was featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown.

Jay Deshpande’s poem “Proportion” was published in the summer issue of The Southern Review.

Chen Chen’s poem “God, Gods, Powers, Lord, Universe—” was published in Narrative Magazine.​​

Eugenia Leigh’s essay “Motherhood Brough My Buried Rage To The Surface” was pubslihed in romper.

Oliver de la Paz was named a 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets.

Kimberly Alidio’s review essay of Oliver de la Paz’s The Diaspora Sonnets was featured on Poetry Foundation.

An excerpt from Kimberly Alidio’s upcoming collection Teeter was published in Cleveland Review of Books.

Cristina Medina’s poem “After divorce, mark ‘LOOKING FOR I DON’T KNOW’” was published in issue 49 of Salt Hill Journal.

Angela Peñaredondo’s poem “[to dream of a cardinal feeding…]” was published on AAWW: The Margins.

Chen Chen is a featured blogger for Poetry Foundation this summer.

Preeti Parikh’s poem “Of the [ ] | Woman || Of the [ ] | Eighteen” was published in AAWW: The Margins.

Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.

Indrani Sengupta’s poems “I throw a dinner party” and “nothing body” were published on American Poetry Review.

E. J. Koh's forthcoming debut novel The Liberators is available for pre-order. The novel will be out from Tin House Books on November 7, 2023.

Oliver de la Paz’s collection The Diaspora Sonnets was released from W.W. Norton.

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns” from his new collection The Diaspora Sonnets was featured on Poetry Society of America.

Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk’s short story “Yonsei” and Jennifer S. Cheng’s hybrid essay “Catalogue of Falling Things” were selected as finalists in the fiction and nonfiction categories for the 2023 Iowa Review Awards.

Moeko Fujii’s article “Refusing to Leave” was published in Orion Magazine.

Chris Santiago’s poem “School of Athens” was featured in Poetry Northwest.

Aria Aber has joined The Yale Review as a contributing editor.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was elected a 2023 Royal Society of Literature Fellow.

Mai Nardone was interviewed on the Critical Literary Consumption podcast and by BK Magazine about his collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom.

Alison Roh Park’s poems “Ancestors,” “Jemez Springs,” and “Accidents” were featured in the Summer 2023 Part II volume of Action, Spectacle.

Angela Veronica Wong was a guest editor for the Summer 2023 volume of Action, Spectacle.

Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was longlisted for the 2023 New American Voices Award.

Oliver de la Paz was interviewed by Literary Hub about his new collection The Diaspora Sonnets.

George Abraham’s poem “Instead of Ekphrasis” was published in Guernica.

Ava Chin’s nonfiction book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming was reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Arthur Sze’s poem “A Letter to Tao Qian” and article “Arthur Sze Introduces Jennifer Elise Foerster” was published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review.

Jenny Xie was interviewed about her novel Holding Pattern on NPR’s All Things Considered.

George Abraham’s poem “Field Notes on Terror & Beginnings” was published in Poetry London and on Poetry Daily.

Jess Rizkallah’s poem “in another dimension i am a good daughter” was published in Paper Darts.

Christine Shan Shan Hou and Vi Khi Nao’s chapbook Evolution of the Bullet was released from Bottlecap Press.

Willie Lin’s poem “Gauntlet for the Left Hand” was published on Poetry Online.

Jenny Xie was interviewed by Electric Literature about her debut novel Holding Pattern.

Michelle Peñaloza’s poems “All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems” and “Utang Na Loob” were published in the July/August 2023 issue of POETRY.

Jennifer Chang’s poem “The Age of Unreason” was published in the July/August 2023 issue of POETRY.

June 2023

Carolyn Ho received an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Cathy Linh Che was interviewed by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association about her and Kyle Lucia Wu’s children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History.

Chen Chen’s poem “Quintessence: the Quotidian” was featured in Poetry Daily.

Michelle Peñaloza’s “What We Can Do With Our Hands: Collages and Poems” featuring her poems “Hanggang Sa Muli,” “Little One,” and “Stereograph: After a Typhoon - Wherever the Roof Lands, There the Filipino Makes His Home, 1912” was published in Bellingham Review.

Zahir Janmohamed’s essay “India Is Not Modi, We Once Said. I Wish I Still Believed It.” was published in The Altantic.

Chen Chen’s poem “A Queer Translates Himself” was featured on the Queer Lives #1 episode of the Risk! podcast.

Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was included in The Millions’s Must-Read Poetry: Summer 2023 list.

George Abraham’s poetry book Birthright was featured alongside Aurielle Marie’s Gumbo Ya Ya in Palette Poetry’s Poetry Double Features #4.

Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was selected as one of Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher 2023 Summer Reading List books.

Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was named as an NPR Critics Summer Pick and a Good Morning America Pick of the Month.

Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was released from SJP Lit.

Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern was released from Penguin Random House.

Bonnie Chau’s article “ChatGPT Revises Authorship” was published in the May/June 2023 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Rachelle Cruz’s short story “Office Auntie” was featured in The Sunday Morning Transport.

Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern was reviewed by the New York Times.

CE Shue was interviewed by Bloom about her chapbook Bridge of Knots.

Phayvanh Luekhamhan’s essay “Across the Phayvanh-verse” was published on Substack.

Chen Chen was featured on episode 8 of the Queer Poem-a-day: Lineage Edition Deerfield Public Library Podcast with his poem “In The World’s Italianest Restaurant.”

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Echoes of Diaspora” won third place for the 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Introduction” was published in the Room 46.2 Ley Line issue of Room Magazine.

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s poem “Tombs” won the 2023 American Short(er) Fiction First-Place Prize.

Eddie Kim’s poem “Top” was published in Poetry Northwest.

Joshua Nguyen’s poems “This Is Just To Say, I Am Done Labeling My Oat Milk In The Faculty Lounge” and “Abandoned Duplex” were featured on Cultural Daily.

Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On was reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Rajiv Mohabir’s essay “A Queer Relearning Hindustani” was published by the Indo-Carribean Canadian Association.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Epithalamium That Refuses to Ignore the Possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse” was published in HAD.

Janice Lobo Sapigao and Shelley Wong received 2023-2026 Lucas Artists fellowships for Literary Arts from Montalvo Arts Center.

Shelley Wong’s collection As She Appears won a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Poetry, and K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want won for Lesbian Fiction.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Trees in Mississippi” was published in Bitter Southerner.

Jenny Xie’s essay “People Paid Me to Cuddle Them” was published in Esquire.

Philip Metres’ “Poetry Kinship: Zach Thomas and the Writers in Residence Program” was featured in June 2023 issue of The Adroit Journal.

Philip Metres’ “The Paradise of Danez Smith’s ‘Summer, Somewhere’” was published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Cincinnati Review.

Philip Metres’ essay “Letters I Must Wait to Open: Revising ‘Ashberries: Letters’” was published in The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 US Poets on their Drafts, Craft, and Process from Bloomsbury.

Paul Tran’s poem “The Three Graces” was published in the New Yorker.

George Abraham’s poem “Of Nation,” was published in Rusted Radishes.

Jane Wong’s novel Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was reviewed by The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Porch Poem” was published in Issue 37: Fire of the LA Review of Books.

J. Mae Barizo’s Tender Machines was reviewed by Poetry Foundation.

Chen Chen’s poems “i love you” and “i hate you” were published in the Spring 2023 Issue 4 of Couplet Poetry.

Tiana Nobile’s essay on A. Van Jordan’s M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems was published in Poetry Daily’s “Books We Love” feature.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder had four poems, “Shaam-e-firaaq: The Evening of Separation,” “The Earthen Pot,” “Nimrod’s Flame,” and “Yaman, an Evening Raga” published in Peste Magazine.

May 2023

Franny Choi’s poem “Time-Sensitive” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Jess Rizkallah’s poems “sad girl saturn return” and “Fire poem” were published on Matter.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “A moment that changed me: I was in my 20s and depressed — then my mother moved into my bed” was published in The Guardian.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “HomeGoods” was featured as poem-of-the day on Poets.org.

Jenny Xie’s essay on her novel Holding Pattern, “My Novel is a Love Letter My Mother Can’t Read,” was published in The Atlantic.

Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Ching-In Chen’s Recombinant, and Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother were included in Book Riot’s round-up of 10 Poetry Books by LGBTQ Asian Authors to Read Right Now.

Jane Wong was interviewed by PEN America for her memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.

Chris Santiago’s poem “Infix” was published in Guernica.

Jason Bayani’s poem “Someday, Again” was recently featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poem “Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)” was recently featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Kimberly Alidio’s text and visual diptych poem “Composition No 2” after Christina Quisumbing Ramilo’s “Composition” commissioned by Nicole Eisenman and The Poetry Project was published in Issue 8 of Hauser & Wirth’s Ursula.

Angie Sijun Lou’s short story “Glint of Sport” was featured in the Spring 2023 issue of ZYZZYVA, no. 125.

Sarah Kay’s poem “In the House With No Doors” was recently featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Joseph O. Legaspi’s poem “To Boil Water” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.

River 慧瑩 Dandelion has been accepted as a Poetry Fellow for Lambda Literary.

River 慧瑩 Dandelion’s poem “spell for trans safety (i)” was recently published in Bellingham Review.

Solmaz Sharif’s Customs, Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense, and Wo Chan’s Togetherness were announced as finalists for the 2023 Firecracker Awards in poetry by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Sally Wen Mao’s poems “The Peony Pavilion” and “The Romance of the Castle-Toppler” from her forthcoming collection The Kingdom of Surfaces were featured on The Offing.

Jenny Xie’s poem “Too Much and Therefore Nothing” was published in The Believer.

Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill, and Lisbeth White’s book Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power was released from North Atlantic Books.

Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was reviewed by BookPage.

Jane Wong’s debut memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is out now from Tin House.

George Abraham’s “After,word” was published in AAWW: The Margins Love Letters notebook.

Rana Tahir’s poem “When Asked” was published in AAWW: The Margins.

Bushra Rehman was interviewed about Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by the Queer Everything Podcast.

Troy Osaki wrote a review on Paul Hlava Ceballos’ collection banana [ ] as Critic-At-Large for Poetry Northwest.

Fatimah Asghar is the first winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for their debut novel When We Were Sisters.

Jay Deshpande’s poem “Wanting a Child” was featured as Poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Sandra Lim’s “Poem” was featured as Poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.

Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu were interviewed about their children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide To Our History by Literary Hub.

andie millares’ poems “i don’t wanna be pregnant but i want everyone to treat me like i’m pregnant” and “Poem for the Rip in Luka Dončić’s Jersey” were published in MAYDAY Magazine.

J. Mae Barizo’s collection Tender Machines was released from Tupelo Press.

R.A. Villanueva’s story “Offerings” was featured on The Moth Radio Hour.

Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu’s children's book An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guidemarch to Our History, illustrated by Kavita Ramchandram, was released from Haymarket Books.

April 2023

Ava Chin’s narrative nonfiction book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming is out from Penguin Press.

Truong Tran’s poem “from BOOK OF THE OTHER” was recently featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown podcast.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Judith I” was published in Muzzle Magazine. 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s third novel The Sleep Watcher was released from Sceptre Books. 

Lois Mei-en Kwa’s short story “The Matriarchs” was published in the April issue of Apex Magazine. 

Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother was shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Sandra Lim was announced the winner of the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Rona Luo’s poem “On Sitting in a Formal Garden After Explaining to a Curator Why a British Institution Shouldn’t Sell Original Cultural Revolution Posters in its Gift Shop” was published in Issue 36 of Anmly. 

Na Mee’s poems “Proficiency” and “#familiesbelongtogether” were published by Diode Editions. 

Susan Nguyen’s poem “To be brave, I look to the daffodil” was featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown podcast. 

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Mutha Magazine. 

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Frontier Poetry. 

Bianca by Eugenia Leigh and Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong were included in Poets.org reading list for National Poetry Month. 

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was included in the LA Times’ roundup “The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Short Stories.” 

The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On by Franny Choi, Bianca by Eugenia Leigh were included in Book Riot’s list “If You Like This Prose Book, Read This Poetry Collection.” 

Shelley Wong's article "Writing Into Our Imagining: Applying For Grants and Fellowships" was published in May/June 2023 Poets & Writers magazine.

Shelley Wong's debut poetry collection As She Appears was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award.

Tamiko Beyer’s review of American Sycamore by Lisbeth White was published in the Georgia Review. 

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s poem “The Eel Questions” was published in AAWW: The Margins. 

Logan Hoffman-Smith’s essay “I Want to Live A Life Outside of Gender” was published in Electric Literature.

Angela Peñaredondo’s poems “Transmitter Signals from a Young Brown Feminist” and “Keeper of Blades” was published in the Somaflights Spring 2023 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.

Gina Chung was interviewed about her debut novel Sea Change by Jen Lue for BOMB Magazine. 

Paul Tran’s poem “Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising” was published on Poets.org.

Joshua Nguyen’s craft chapbook Hidden Labor & The Naked Body: Work They Don’t Prepare You For After Publication was released from Sundress Publications. 

Philip Metres’ poem “Qasida for Abdel Wahab Yousif” was published in Issue 46, Volume 2 of The Journal, and the poem “ “Map the Not Answer” was published in Volume 43, Number 1 of Pleiades.

Philip Metres’ craft essay “Dreaming the Total Poem, Assembling the Counterarchive, Writing the Refuge” was published in Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems from University of Akron Press. 

MT Vallarta will be the Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies this Fall 2023 at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 

Rana Tahir’s book Stranger Things: Heroes and Monsters (Choose Your Own Adventure) was released from Random House Children’s Books. 

Troy Osaki’s poem “Every Filipino Belongs to the Philippines” was published in KUOW for National Poetry Month. 

Fatimah Asghar’s book When We Were Sisters was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was interviewed by The Independent about her forthcoming novel The Sleep Watcher.

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “I Was Wrong About So Much” was featured as Poem of the Day on The Slowdown. 

Mai Nardone’s Welcome Me to the Kingdom was reviewed by the Asian Review of Books.

Jane Wong’s forthcoming memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City received a starred review on Publisher’s Weekly.

Franny Choi was interviewed about The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On  by Scott Detrow for NPR. 

Jess Yuan’s poem “Crusoe’s Islands” was published in Big Other. 

Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s novel Four Treasures of the Sky was released in paperback. 

Chen Chen’s poem “The School of Night & Hyphens” was reprinted in the anthology Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works. 

Ina Cariño’s collection Feast was included in Buzzfeed’s list “13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry.”

Aria Aber’s poem “What Were You Waiting For” was published in the latest issue of Believer Magazine.

Jenny Xie’s novel Holding Pattern has been selected as a “5 under 35” Honoree by the National Book Awards. 

Franny Choi’s poem “September, 2001” and Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Beauty” was published in Volume 44, Number 2 of Indiana Review. 

Joshua Nguyen has two poems published in the Spring 2023 issue of Gravy Quarterly. 

March 2023

Philip Metres’ poem “Wind/ode,” George Abraham’s poem “Love Letter to the Eve of the End of the World”, and Craig Santos Perez’s poems “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier” and “Good Fossil Fuels,” and essay “Recycling Poetry in a Time of Climate Change” were published in AAWW: The Margin’s Climate Notebook. 

Paul Tran’s essay “Poetry & Grief: On ‘Those Winter Sundays’ by Robert Hayden” was published on Poets.org as part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming on Poetry and Grief. 

Gina Chung’s debut novel Sea Change was released from Vintage. 

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Poetry Northwest about Bianca.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “Pain Reliever” was published in Tabi Po! Literary Magazine. 

Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “Humpback Vocalizations” from his forthcoming collection Whale Aria was publishing in Issue 33: the Ocean Issue of Ecotone Magazine. 

Jean Chen Ho’s essay “How to Stay, When to Vanish” was published in Criterion.

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed about Bianca by Alison Stewart for WNYC’s All Of It podcast.

Franny Choi was interviewed by Maslen Ward for Washington Square Review.

Aria Aber’s poem “Zelda Fitzgerald” was featured on The Slowdown podcast. 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and Jessica J. Lee were interviewed by Monocle magazine about the anthology they edited together, Dog Hearted. 

Gowri Koneswaran is Split This Rock’s New Literary Arts Program Director. 

Janice Lobo Sapigao published an essay on loss and reflects on Laurel Chen’s poem “Greensickness” as part of the Poetry Coalition’s March Programming on Poetry and Grief. 

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Write or Die magazine. 

Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems and Ina Cariño’s collection Feast were featured in Book Riot’s “Reflecting on Winter Poetry” list. 

Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems was reviewed in Harriet Books and West Trade Review.

Ina Cariño’s poem “Graveyard Picnic” was featured as Poem of the Week on Split This Rock.

Bushra Rehman was interviewed on the National Endowment for the Arts Art Works podcast.

E.J. Koh has four poems, “After the Funeral,” “Cold Water,” “Forbidden Peak,” and “The Farmhouse,” published in Airlight Magazine.

Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems received a starred review in Shelf Awareness.

K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want, Bushra Rehman’s Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion, Shelley Wong’s As She Appears, and Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling were named as 2023 Lammy Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards.

Ploi Pirapokin’s essay “Reading Comprehension: Fuck-It Friends” was featured in the Winter/Spring 2023's "Noncompliant" issue of The Sycamore Review (Volume 33, Issue 2). 

Jessica Yuan’s acrostic poem “[UNTITLED LOVE SONG]” was published in Heavy Feather Review.

Janine Joseph was interviewed for the Poetry Foundation's podcast, Poetry Off the Shelf.

Lyn Li Che’s poem “Ogress” was published in Passages North.

Kenji Liu published new translations in Volume 1 of Senryu by Heart Mountain Senryū Association.

Indrani Sengupta’s poem “the Woman” was published in Volume 14, Issue 2 of New South. 

Sahar Muradi has been selected for the inaugural poetry cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator program for debut writers from Poets & Writers. 

Joshua Nguyen’s poem “American Lục Bát For the End of The World [At Long Last, At Least We Have Our Language?] or The Final Sonnet” was featured as Poem of the Week on Split This Rock. 

Jess Rizkallah’s poem “Identity Politics” was published on Poetry Online.

Jordan Alam is a recipient of the 2023 Artist Trust Fellowship.

Jay Deshpande’s poems “Jenner, CA” and “quiet night. new moon” were published in the March 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine.

Ina Cariño’s debut collection Feast was released from Alice James Books.

February 2023

Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s play PUBLIC OBSCENITIES will be shown at Soho Rep and was featured in the spring preview of Best Off Broadway shows in TimeOut.

Ina Cariño reads the poem “Lean Economy” from their debut collection Feast, which is also featured in Page One of the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. 

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Forgiveness, Perhaps” was recently featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown podcast.

andie millares has two poems, “Millennial Pink and Breast Cancer Pink Show Up to the Party in the Same Dress” and “Party Postscript Set to the Line Dance Choreography of ‘todo, todo’” in the second issue of healthline zine. 

Christine Hou’s poem “A Promise” was published in Copenhagen. 

Adeeba Shahid Talukder has two poems, “Shaam-e-firaaq: The Evening of Separation” and “The Earthen Pot” published in Peste Magazine.

Rana Tahir has two poems, “Trenches at ShowBiz, Kuwait City” and “Coming Home” published on The Common. 

Ina Cariño’s poem “War Supply” was published in Volume 28, No. 4 of Southern Cultures.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was included in the Boston Globe roundup of three books that tackle the complexities of friendship.

Lehua M. Taitano’s poem “Heart, as Black Phoebe” was featured in Issue 14 of Green Linden Press.

Sally Wan Mao has been announced as a Core & Steepletop Artists in Residence for July 2023. 

Cathy Linh Che’s “Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival” was awarded Best of the Net 2023 in Poetry, and K-Ming Chang’s short story “Daughter, Redacted” was awarded in fiction. 

Eugenia Leigh’s forthcoming book Bianca was included in Open Books New and Noteworthy list.

Terisa Siagatonu has been announced as a 2023 Emerson Collective Fellow in the Climate Cohort.

Eugenia Leigh’s essay “Mental Illness Made My First Year as a Mom Excruciating. I’m Just Lucky It Wasn’t Worse” was published on TIME. 

Mai Nardone was interviewed by Electric Literature about his short story collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom. 

Mai Nardone’s short story “English!” from his book Welcome Me to the Kingdom was excerpted on Literary Hub. 

Mai Nardone was interviewed by The Brooklyn Review. 

Aria Aber’s poem “Zelda Fitzgerald” was published in The New Yorker.

Paul Tran’s debut poetry collection All The Flowers Kneeling is a finalist for the 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. 

Solmaz Sharif is a finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. 

George Abraham’s poem “Let Him Rest” was published in Poetry Magazine.

E. J. Koh's forthcoming debut novel The Liberators is available for pre-order. The novel will be out from Tin House Books on November 7, 2023.

Paul Tran’s All The Flowers Kneeling was selected as winner in poetry for the Golden Poppy Awards 2022 by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Jee Leong Koh’s new book Inspector Inspector was reviewed in Times Literary Supplement.

Na Mee received one of the Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowshops.

Janine Joseph’s poem “The Night before You Are Naturalized” was published in Volume 17, Number 2 of Poetry Northwest.

Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

Jasmine Sawers The Anchored World was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story.

Paul Tran’s All The Flowers Kneeling was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. 

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “My Father Erupts” from her forthcoming book Bianca was published in Issue 91 of The Cortland Review.

Mai Nardone’s short story collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom was released from Penguin Random House.

Idrani Sengupta’s poem “the Woman” was published in Issue 14.2 of New South.

Margaret Rhee was named a 2023 Bandung Resident with the Asian American Arts Alliance and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. 

George Abraham’s poem “Let Him Rest” was published in the latest issue of Poetry Magazine.

Jane Wong’s forthcoming memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City received a Kirkus Review. 

Franny Choi was interviewed by PEN America about her collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. 

Em Dial’s virtual poetry exhibition “The Ball” launched. 

Tiana Nobile’s poem “Yuri” was published and featured as poem of the week by Split This Rock. 

George Abraham’s poem “ars poetica with waning memory” was republished on Poetry Online. 

Candy Shue’s book Bridge of Knots was released by Gold Line Press. 

Chen Chen’s poem “October 2020, 2021, 2022,” was published in Blue Mountain Review. 

Jenny Xie was interviewed by the Yale Review. 

January 2023

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by The Rumpus.

Fatimah Asghar’s poem “When We Thought the World Would End, I Didn’t Think it Would Be Like This,” was published on The American Poetry Review. 

Eugenia Leigh’s forthcoming collection Bianca was reviewed in Rhino.

Ina Cariño’s poem “Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org. 

Purvi Shah’s poem “Saraswati is perturbed when the swami says 1 + 1 = 1” was published on dialogist. 

Purvi Shah has been shortlisted in poetry by the Malahat Review for the 2023 Open Season Awards. 

Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems was reviewed by New York Journal of Books, as well as on the VerseCurious podcast.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was released in paperback.

Sumita Chakraborty’s poem “The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Two: ‘Sounds of Human Labor’” was published on Split This Rock. 

Janine Joseph’s second collection Decade of the Brain: Poems was released from Alice James Books. 

Matthew Salesses’ novel The Sense of Wonder was released from Little, Brown. 

Matthew Salesses’ essay “How I Found My Desire to Live After My Wife Died” was published on Time. 

Shelley Wong published three poems in Action, Spectacle.

Shelley Wong was named as one of Poets & Writers debut poets in "The Beauty of Being: Our Eighteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets."

Shelley Wong's As She Appears was reviewed in The Rumpus.

Sayuri Ayers’ poem “In the Season of Pink Ladies” was published on Poetry Foundation.

Helene Achanzar’s poems “O My Worry, I Reach for Your Hand,” “O Gratitude, I Empty My Cup,” and “On the Spectrum of Intimacy” were published in the Winter 2022 Issue of the Georgia Review.

Indrani Sengupta’s poem “here in the Olde” was published in Washington Square Review.

Chen Chen’s chapbook Explodingly Yours was released by Ghost City Press.

Philip Metres is the winner of the inaugural Stephen Mitchell Prize for his translation of Ochre and Rust: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. The book will be published in the fall of 2023.

Nay Saysourinho completed a Fellowship with Baldwin For the Arts.

E.J. Koh has been named a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

The Literature Translation Institute of Korea awarded the 2022 Translation Grand Prize to E. J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello for their English translation of The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Korean poet Yi Won. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “They Say It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost Than to Never Have Loved at All” was published in Issue 17 of Apogee.

Jenny Xie’s novel Holding Pattern, E.J Koh’s novel The Liberators, and Gina Chung’s novel Sea Change, were featured in R.O. Kwon’s list of “62 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2023” for Electric Literature.

Janine Joseph’s forthcoming collection Decade of the Brain was featured in the New York Times. 

Joshua Nguyen’s poems “Kaleidoscoping Around The Haibun Of The Last Can Of SPAM,” “To Asian Squat or Not?,” and “Rest Day: Coffee / Coffee / Love / Love” were published in the Broadkill Review.

Chen Chen’s poems “night sugar” and “Quintessence: the Caffeinated” were published in issue 5 of Peripheries Journal. 

Jenny Xie’s poem “Abstract with Red Square” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Oliver de la Paz has been named the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA from 2023–2025.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s lyric essay “We Bury What We Cannot Bear to Lose” was published in Gulf Coast.

December 2022

Neil Aitken has three poems, “Ritual,” “Crossing Over,” and “Farewell” in Tupelo Quarterly.

Bushra Rehman’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was named a must-read book of December by the Chicago Review of Books, and one of 10 noteworthy books for December by the Washington Post. It was also included in “10 Books to Cozy Up With This December” by E News. 

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was included in Glamour Magazine’s 40 best books of 2022 roundup. 

Janine Joseph’s forthcoming collection Decade of the Brain was included in the Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin feature of Poets & Writers. 

Katy Hargett-Hsu’s poem “Internal Dissident” won the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize and was published in issue 102 of Crazyhorse. 

Katy Hargett-Hsu’s "Petition for Naturalization" was published in issue 45 of Arts & Letters.

George Abraham’s poem “An American Surrealism” was nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize by Foglifter. 

Philip Metres’ poem “To Make of Hell a Heaven” was published by America Magazine, and “The Poetics of Justice” was published in The Writer’s Chronicle. 

Philip Metres’ essay “Lost in the Underground Cathedral” was published on World Literature Today. 

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Electric Literature about her debut novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion. 

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Shondaland. 

Bushra Rehman’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was named one of Literary Hub’s “17 New Books to Invigorate Your December Reading,” one of Buzzfeed’s best book releases for December, and was a notable December release on LGBTQ Reads. It was also recommended by Autostraddle. 

Melody S. Gee’s book review of Tsering Yangzom Lama’s novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies was published in Commonweal Magazine.

Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense, Solmaz Sharif’s Customs, Fatimah Asghar’s When We Were Sisters, Bushra Rehman’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling, Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother, K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want, Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane, Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, and Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On were included in NPR’s Books We Love list. 

Margaret Rhee’s essay “Blue Collar/White Collar” was published on The Offing.

Wo Chan’s collection Togetherness was reviewed on Soapberry Review. 

Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay “Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative” was featured on Literary Hub. 

W. Todd Kaneko’s essay “The Night of Skywalkers” was nominated for a Pushcart prize by Passages North.

Iris A. Law was nominated for a Pushcart prize by the New England Review for the poem “Experimental Method: Tense Fluidity (Is/Was)” 

Rajiv Mohabir was nominated for a Pushcart prize by Honey Literary for the poem “Hari ne apnā āp chipāyā.” 

Sally Wen Mao’s short story “Hot Spring Ghost Story” was published on The Offing. 

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem “the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing” was published in the Nation Magazine. 

Fatimah Asghar’s book When We Were Sisters was featured on The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2022 So Far.”

Bushra Rehman’s novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was reviewed in the New York Times. 

Bushra Rehman’s novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was included in the Los Angeles Times “Top 10 books to Add to Your Reading List in December.”

November 2022

Rajiv Mohabir had two poems, “Hari ne apnā āp chipāyā” and “tīrath meñ to sab pānī hai,” published on Honey Literary.

Lisa Lee was awarded the Marianne Russo Emerging Writer Award for a novel-in-progress from Key West Literary Seminar. Lisa Lee was also awarded 2023 residencies from Tin House and Hedgebrook.

Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on: Poems, Ocean Vuong’s Time Is A Mother, Fatimah Asghar’s WHEN WE WERE SISTERS, and Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was featured in TIME magazine’s “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022.”

K-ming Chang’s Gods of Want and Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s Four Treasures of the Sky was featured in The New York Times Magazine’s “100 Notable Books of 2022.”

Anuradha Bhowmik’s book Brown Girl Chromatography was reviewed by the California Review of Books. 

William Pei Shih’s short story “Burying Big Treasure'' was published in the issue 102 of Crazyhorse. 

George Abraham’s poem “Unarcheology of ‘Father’” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Lee Herrick was appointed as California’s 10th Poet Laureate.

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet Traveling Between Apartment Rentals” was published in the New York Times Magazine. 

Catherine Con Morse earned a 2-book deal with Phoebe Yeh at Crown Books for Young Readers for the novel The Notes. 

Christy NaMee Eriksen’s essays during Fat Bear Week were published by The Anchorage Daily News. 

Min Kang’s chapbook “darkly + completely” was released by Essay Press. 

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “I Was Wrong About So Much” was published on The Atlantic.

Timothy Yu’s essay “Poetry in Conversation with Itself” was published on POETRY. 

Jee Leong Koh’s collection Inspector, Inspector was released by Carcanet Press. 

Pichchenda Bao poems, “My Mother Stands Behind Her Father” and “Starlings in the United States,” and Hyejung Kook’s poem “Aubade with Bread and Water” were published in The Ilanot Review. Pichchenda and Hyejung were also part of the “Round Table: In the Wake of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade” featured in this issue of The Ilanot Review. 

Hyejung Kook’s poem “Quicksilver” was published on The Coop: The Poetry Cooperative.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Suppose You Were a Bad Ghost” was published on The Common. 

W. Todd Kaneko's three micro-essays, “Side Quests,” “The Cower Bug,” and “Different Kinds of Ghouls” was published on Sweet. 

Chen Chen was interviewed by Misha Ponnuraju about “Your Emergency Contact is Experiencing an Emergency” for Foglifter Press. 

Siqi Liu’s short story “Asymptote” was published in Issue 69 of McSweeney’s. 

Jessica Abughattas’ poem “First Marriage” was published by Thrush Poetry Journal. 

Jenny Xie’s short story “Model Home” was published by Catapult. 

Tariq Luthun was interviewed on the Poetry Magazine podcast. 

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poems “Oedema” and “Body Mass Index” were published in The Ilanot Review. 

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “asian american poem at 21” was published in Issue #8 of Martha St. Zine. 

Kien Lam’s book Extinction Theory was reviewed on Soapberry Review. 

October 2022

Philip Metres’ essay “The Other World, and This One” was published by Image Journal.

Joseph O. Legaspi’s poem “Longyi, a Lyric” was featured on The Common. 

Jenny Xie was interviewed by Paul Hlava Ceballos for Poetry Northwest.

Franny Choi was interviewed on NPR Morning Edition about The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. 

Kien Lam reads the poem “Anagrams” from his poetry collection, Extinction Theory, for Poets & Writers. 

Tariq Luthun’s poem “I Want to Die” and Troy Osaki’s poems “Placed Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time,” “& Somehow, My Grandpa Finds Places to Sleep after Japan Invades,” and “Despedida for the Last Despedida” were published in POETRY.

Franny Choi was interviewed by Poets & Writers.

Franny Choi’s collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On was released from Ecco.

George Abraham has two poems, “An American Surrealism” and “Realisms,” published in Volume 7, Issue 2 of Foglifter.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem “the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing” was published in The Nation.

W. Todd Kaneko’s poems “Elegy Full of Animal Parts” and “Black Hole” were published in Issue 9 of Bear Review.

Franny Choi’s poem “Disaster Means ‘Without a Star’” from her collection, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, was featured in The Atlantic.

Chen Chen’s collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced and Emergency was included in The Guardian’s The Best Recent Poetry Roundup. 

Marianne Chan’s poem “The Baby Refuses,” a conversation with Chen Chen, and a conversation between Amanda Moore and Shelley Wong is featured in Issue 43 of The Adroit Journal. 

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Adiós, Miami” was published in Volume 25 of the Water~Stone Review.

Cathy Linh Che and William Pei Shih have been longlisted for the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize.

Laurel Chen’s poem “Greensickness” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Franny Choi’s poem “Look” was featured on The Atlantic. 

Oliver de la Paz was interviewed by Boiler Journal. 

Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “The Day My Father Has a Stroke I Have a Filling” and Chris Santiago’s poem “Many Worlds” were featured in Issue 90 of The Cortland Review. Jenny Xie’s collection The Rupture Tense was also reviewed in this issue. 

Fatimah Asghar’s debut novel When We Were Sisters was released from One World Books. 

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet 55,” from the Spring 22 Issue of The Hopkins Review, was featured as Poem of the Day on Poetry Daily 365.

Jessica Abughatta’s poem “Radical Surgeon of My Own Life” was published on Guernica. 

Ryan Lee Wong was interviewed by Kyle Lucia Wu about his book Which Side Are You On for BOMB Magazine.

Fatimah Asghar’s book When We Were Sisters was included in the Los Angeles Time’s roundup “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in October.”

Kien Lam’s collection Extinction Theory was released by UGA Press.

Shelley Wong’s poem “Headlands 1” was published in Volume 44, Number 5 of Kenyon Review.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Forest of Beginnings” was published by Mn Artists. 

Wo Chan’s poem “Wonder Wheel” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Jasmine Sawers’ book The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore was released from Rose Metal Press. It was reviewed in the New York Times.

Jasmine Sawers’ story "Tiny Little Goat," won the Fractured Lit Reprint Prize. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poems, “Between the Lines” and “To All the TSA Agents Who’ve Patted Me Down” and Ina Cariño’s poems, “Litanies for the Dead” and “Deluge” were published in Lantern Review Issue 10. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “One Good Memory” was featured on Rattle. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “For Who Spring Is No Laughing Matter,” received a Best of the Net Nomination from Blackbird. 

Anuradha Bhowmik’s book, Brown Girl Chromatography, is available to order.

Sun Yung Shin’s picture book Where We Come From, illustrated by Dion MBD and co-authored by Diane Wilson (Dakota), Shannon Gibney, and John Coy, was published by CarolRhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group.

Sun Yung Shin’s fourth poetry collection The Wet Hex was published by Coffee House Press.

Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s book Four Treasures of the Sky has been longlisted for the American Library Association's 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction. 

Jenny Xie is a 2022 National Book Award finalist in poetry for her poetry book, The Rupture Tense.

E.J. Koh received the 2022 Artistic Achievement Award by the Korean American Coalition of Washington at the KAC National Convention & Gala.

Bobuq Sayed’s essay “Must a Novel Take a Side?” was published by Liminal.

Sejal Shah was interviewed alongside Kirin Makker for The Common.

Matthew Salesses’s forthcoming book The Sense of Wonder received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. 

Seema Yasmin’s book What The Fact?: Finding The Truth In All The Noise was released from Simon & Schuster. It received a starred review from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. 

Chen Chen was interviewed by Gasher.

Jessica Abughattas, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Jennifer S. Cheng, Franny Choi, Hyejung Kook, Amy Lam, Iris A. Law, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Angie Sijun Lou, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Aurora Masum-Javed, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Michelle Peñaloza, Angela Peñaredondo, Sun Yung Shin, Monica Sok, Paul Tran, Jane Wong, and Jessica Yuan contributed to the anthology They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, published by Blue Oak Press.

Ryan Lee Wong’s essay “The Longest Retreat: Ryan Lee Wong on the Intersection of Writing, Meditating, and Community” was published on Literary Hub.

Ryan Lee Wong’s debut novel Which Side Are You On is out from Catapult Books. 

Iris A. Law has two poems, “Experimental Method: Tense Fluidity (Is / Was)” and “My Father at Breakfast,” published in Volume 43, No. 3 of the New England Review. 

William Pei Shih was interviewed about his story “Necessary Evils,” by The Southern Review.

Iris A. Law’s poem “Who Were You When You Were Not Haunted” was published by West Trestle Review. 

W. Todd Kaneko’s craft essay “The Poet’s Moveset” was published in DMQ Review.

Monica Youn’s forthcoming collection From From: Poems is available for pre-order. 

Aria Aber, Cathy Linh Che, and Ocean Vuong’s poems were included in the Best American Poetry 2022.  

Sarah Kay’s performance of her poem “Orange” at Gray Area was recently featured on Button Poetry.

Ina Cariño’s poem “Maybe a Ghost Carried Me Here” was recently published in Issue 10 of Bath Magg.

Chen Chen has three poems and an interview published in Issue 10 of Bath Magg.

Jenny Xie’s poem “A Poem by Jenny Xie” from her collection, The Rupture Tense, was excerpted on Literary Hub. 

Wo Chan’s poem “performing miss america at bushwig 2018, then chilling.” from their collection Togetherness was excerpted on Literary Hub. 

Ryan Lee Wong’s forthcoming novel Which Side Are You On was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. 

Chen Chen was recently interviewed about his new collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Electric Literature.

Asha Thanki’s essay “Bad Friend” was published by The Fourth River.

Iris A. Law’s poem “Homecoming” was featured in AAWW: The Margins.

September 2022

K-Ming Chang’s short story “Sunkiller” was published on Catapult.

Bushra Rehman’s forthcoming debut novel, “Roses in the Mouth of a Lion,” received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. 

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival” and Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “For Who Spring Is No Laughing Matter” were both nominated for Blackbird’s Best of the Net. 

Chen Chen was interviewed by PEN about his new collection “Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency.”

MT Vallarta’s poem, “In Memoriam,” was published on Madwomen in the Attic, where they are also the featured writer of the month.

Ina Cariño’s poem “names are spells, & I have four—” and Jaz Sufi’s poem “Oasis” were both nominated for the Diode Poetry Journal 2023 Best of the Net anthology. 

Two of Chen Chen’s poems from his collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency were featured on Allium. 

Chen Chen’s collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Wo Chan’s Togetherness, and Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense were included in the Lantern Review’s list of An Asian American Poetry Companion: Cozy Books For Fall. 

Troy Osaki and Tariq Luthun have been announced as 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows by The Poetry Foundation. 

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “On Silk” was published by Granta. 

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “Fade In” was published in Issue 11 of The Yale Review. 

Chen Chen’s book received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. 

Pichchenda Bao’s poem “Starlings in the United States” was nominated for Best of the Net 2023 by The Ilanot Review. 

Wo Chan had three poems from their collection, Togetherness, featured on AAWW: The Margins. 

Alison Minami’s review of the play The Great Jheri Curl Debate was published on FPI. 

Muriel Leung’s poem “[Suppose my father awoke …]” was published in the New York Times Magazine. 

Fatimah Asghar’s forthcoming book, When We Were Sisters, has been longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for fiction. 

Meng Jin was interviewed by The Rumpus.

Pichchenda Bao’s poem “At The End of This Rope” was published by The Coop.

Jennifer S. Cheng was interviewed in Issue 8 of A Velvet Giant.

Janine Joseph’s poem “Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,” was featured as poem of the day for Poets.org. 

Jenny Xie’s second collection, The Rupture Tense, is out by Graywolf Press.

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story "A Wedding in Multan, 1978” is included in this year’s Best Debut Short Stories 2022, out from Catapult. 

Wo Chan’s debut poetry collection, Togetherness, has been released by Nightboat Books. 

MT Vallarta was selected as a 2023 Roots. Wounds. Words fellow.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets.

Jenny Xie’s book, The Rupture Tense, was reviewed by The New York Times. 

Shelley Wong’s debut collection, As She Appears, from YesYes Books, and Jenny Xie’s second collection, The Rupture Tense, from Gray Wolf Press, have both been longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry. 

Sahar Muradi's debut collection, Octobers, was named as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and will be published in 2023 by University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Chen Chen’s second poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, was released from BOA Editions. 

Bobuq Sayed’s story and novel excerpt “The Prayer of Fugitives” was published in the Gulf Coast journal. 

Wo Chan’s reads their poem “Years Flow By Like Water” from the forthcoming collection, Togetherness, for Poets & Writers. 

Sumita Chakraborty was interviewed by Honey Literary about writing her debut poetry collection, Arrow. 

Carolyn Ho’s collection Blue: Xanh: Son: Language in Freefall! won the 2022 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in poetry.

Ina Cariño’s essay “The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land” was published by Lithub.

Victoria Cho has two essays included in the anthology Nonwhite and Woman, out from Woodhall Press. 

Bobuq Sayed co-edited the anthology Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia, published by Allen and Unwin. 

Jane Wong’s poem “Fruit” was recently published in the Kenyon Review. She will also begin as a Loghaven Artist-in-Residence.  

Philip Metres’s poem “Apocalypse Waltz” was published in the journal Crisis and Critique. Metres was also one of the sixty writers featured in Jenny Holzer's New York exhibition, “Speech Itself!”

Jenny Xie had two poems published in Issue 42 of the Adroit Journal. 

Christine Hou had three poems published in Issue 9 of Iterant Journal.

Chen Chen’s poem “Quintessense: the Quotidian” was published in Wildness by Platypus Press.

George Abraham’s poem “GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica” was published by Catapult.

Rachelle Cruz’s poem “Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital” was published in Strange Horizons. 

Mai Der Vang’s collection Yellow Rain and Truong Tran’s book Book of the Other: Small in Comparison both won a 2022 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

August 2022

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan reviewed Emi Yagi’s novel, Diary of a Void, for The Atlantic.

Joshua Nguyen’s book Come Clean won the 2021 Poetry Discovery Prize by the Writers League of Texas.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Oasis” was published by Diode Editions.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra was interviewed by The Adroit Journal about her chapbook Notes from the Birth Year.

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Publishers Weekly about her upcoming book Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion.

Marianne Chan’s poem “Lakephrasis” was published in the Flyover Country issue of The Journal.

Angie Sijun Lou’s review of Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s collection Aerial Concave without Cloud was published in The Georgia Review.

Meng Jin was interviewed by The Boston Globe to speak on her collection Self-Portrait with Ghost.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman was featured in Lambda Literary’s “August’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature” list.

William Pei Shih’s short story “The Paris of China” was published in The Boston Review.

Chen Chen’s poem “A Favorite Room” was excerpted by The Rumpus for their Poetry Book Club.

Craig Santos Perez’s poem “thirteen ways of looking at a wildfire” was featured in a folio from Terrain.

Meng Jin’s book Self Portrait with Ghost was reviewed and featured in ABC Art’s monthly book column.

Troy Osaki and Tariq Luthun were selected as finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Hieu Minh Nguyen’s “The Understudy” was published by Poets.Org.

Diana Khoi Nguyen was interviewed by Surging Tide Magazine.

Rajiv Mohabir’s “Give Me A Boat That Can Carry Two” was published by Poets.org.

Franny Choi was a guest on Queers at the End of the World podcast.

July 2022

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Out of Research Into Reveries” was published by Poets.org.

Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency was reviewed by Indigo Carter for Medium.

Muriel Leung’s “If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear” was published by Guernica Magazine.

Jasmine Sawers was interviewed by Joel Coltharp for Smokelong Quarterly.

Muriel Leung was interviewed by Surging Tide Magazine.

Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities was featured as one of National Poetry Library’s Staff Summer Picks.

K-Ming Chang was interviewed by Yeenon Yu for Kundiman.

Rajiv Mohabir had two poems published in The Dodge.

Shelley Wong’s As She Appears was reviewed by Rhino Poetry.

Wo Chan’s poem “what do i make of my face / except” was published by Poetry Daily.

Chen Chen’s forthcoming book Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency was reviewed by The Poetry Question.

Todd W. Kaneko’s poems were included in the anthology Busy Griefs, Raw Towns.

K-Ming Chang’s book Gods of Want was reviewed by Alexandra Kleeman for The New York Times.

Margaret Rhee’s “The Year Before I Left For Mars” was featured as the “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Franny Choi’s “Comfort Poem” was recently featured by Poetry Daily.

K-Ming Chang was interviewed by Datebook to speak on her book Gods of Want.

Kien Lam’s poem “On Kindness” was published by American Poetry Review.

Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling and Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane were featured on NPR’s 2022 “Best Books” list.

June 2022

Leah Silvieus’ review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Thrust was published by Astra Magazine.

Rajiv Mohabir won the 2021 INDIE in LGBTQ+ Adult Nonfiction for his book Antiman.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Litany to Protect Against Possession” was featured in SouthEast Review.

Chen Chen’s forthcoming book Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency was featured by Publisher Weekly as one of their Top 10 Poetry Collections for Fall 2022. 

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “Elegy Composed in the New York Botanical Garden” was featured by Poets.org.

Janine Joseph’s poem “Every Good Boy Does Fine” was published by The Arkansas International.

Tamiko Beyer won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry for her book Last Days.

Chen Chen’s poem “Elegy to Be Exhaled at Dusk” was republished in the anthology Queer Nature.

Monica Ong’s Planeteria had a feature written about it by Timothy Yu and published by the Poetry Foundation.

Margaret Rhee’s essay “On Resistance: The Feminist Legacy in Science Fiction Poetry” was published by Strange Horizons.

Pik-Shuen Fung was awarded the Amazon Canada First Novel prize.

Muriel Leung won the 2022 Four Quartets Prize, awarded by the Poetry Society of America.

Ploi Pirapokin’s essay “Here’s Your Grandchild” was published by Midnight Breakfast.

Chen Chen’s poem “I love you to the moon &” was featured by Poets.org.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E.J. Koh’s translation of Yi Won’s The World's Lightest Motorcycle was selected as a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation.

May 2022

Muriel Leung, for her collection Imagine Us, The Swarm, was awarded the 2022 Four Quartets Prize by the Poetry Society of America.

Franny Choi’s “Unlove Poem” was published in The American Poetry Review.

Sun Yung Shin’s forthcoming poetry collection The Wet Hex is now available for preorder from Coffee House Press.

Shelley Wong's As She Appears received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Melody S. Gee is a recipient of a 2022 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award in creative nonfiction.

Patrick Rosal’s poem “Delanda Undone” was published by The American Poetry Review.

Chen Chen had three poems published in the Summer 2022 issue of Violet, Indigo, Blue, Etc.

Jean Chen Ho was included in a conversation published by Literary Hub.

Shelley Wong was featured on the Of Poetry podcast.

Franny Choi’s forthcoming book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, now has a cover and is available for preorder.

Joseph O. Legaspi’s Threshold, Patrick Rosal’s The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others, and Jane Wong’s How to Not Be Afraid of Everything were included on The Strategist’s “22 Books to Read During AAPI Heritage Month, Recommended by AAPI Writers” list.

Mai Der Vang’s “Yellow Rain” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

Shelley Wong was interviewed by Ploughshares to speak about her book As She Appears.

Cathy Linh Che was interviewed by A4 to speak about Kundiman.

Patrick Rosal’s The Last Thing won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by Erika Meitner.

Shelley Wong’s debut collection As She appears is out now from YesYes Books.

Muriel Leung’s short story, “To Molt and To Love You,” was selected as a finalist in Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize.

Melody S. Gee’s book Each Crumbling House made the CLMP reading list for AAPI month.

Shelley Wong’s As She Appears was reviewed by Genevieve Walker for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Ocean Vuong has finished the script for the film adaptation of his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

Mai Der Vang’s “I Am The Whole Defense” was featured by Poets.org.

Tiana Nobile’s Cleave and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments were featured in Astrix Journal’s “9 AAPI Writers to Read in May 2022” list.

Shelley Wong was interviewed by Frontier Poetry.

April 2022

Hala Alyan’s “There is Nothing More Terrible Than Waiting for the Terrible” was published in Live in the Layers.

Paul Tran’s All The Flowers Kneeling, Jane Wong’s How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, Lee Choi’s Transverse, and Shelley Wong’s As She Appears were featured on Ms. Magazine’s “Poetry for the Rest of Us 2022” list.

Ina Cariño was awarded the George Bogin Memorial Award by the Poetry Society.

Leah Silvieus was interviewed by Hope Fischbach for Grist Journal.

Shelley Wong spoke about her book As She Appears on The Hive Poetry Collection. 

Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “Erotic Things” was published by The Margins.

Craig Santos Perez was given the George Garrett Award by AWP.

Joseph Legaspi’s poem “Amphibians” was published in the anthology Queer Nature.

Terisa Siagatonu was featured on KQED to speak about climate change and her writing.

Shelley Wong published a Writer's Notebook short essay on her poem "The Winter Forecast" in New England Review.

Rowan Hiyaso Bucchanan’s essay “Men Talk to Me About Cars” was published by Astra Magazine.

Min Kang’s book “darkly + completely” was selected as one of the winners for the Essay Press's 2021 chapbook contest.

Paul Tran’s All The Flower’s Kneeling and Shelley Wong’s As She Appears were featured in Electric Lit’s “7 Feminist Poetry Collections that Examine Gender Identity and Oppression” list.

Rajiv Mohabir was interviewed by World Literature Today to speak about his books Cutlish and Antiman.

Ocean Vuong was featured in The New York Times.

Joshua Nguyen’s Come Clean was reviewed in Muzzle Magazine.

Shelley Wong had two poems published in Cortland Review.

Chen Chen’s forthcoming book Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency was made available for preorder from Boa Editions.

Jaz Sufi had two poems published in Shade Literary Arts.

Shelley Wong’s poem "Walking Across Fire Island" was featured on The Slowdown podcast.

Ocean Vuong was interviewed by The New Yorker.

Ina Cariño was selected as one of the ten Whiting Award winners.

Joshua Ngyuen’s book Come Clean won the MIAL award for poetry.

Chen Chen’s poem “Winter” was published in The Rumpus.

March 2022

Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay “Letters to Mao” was published on Catapult.

Sejal Shah’s essay “Choosing Our Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd” was published on LitHub.

Ocean Vuong was interviewed by Time Magazine to speak about his book Time is a Mother.

Ruban Quesada’s review of Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was published by National Book Critics Circle.

Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast A Spell to Save Us from the Void was featured in The Poet’s Nightstand by Shelly Wong.

Ploi Pirapokin’s interview of Kate Folk was published on Catapult.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman was nominated for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction.

W. Todd Kaneko’s essay “Night of the Skywalkers” was published in Passage’s North.

Melody S. Gee’s review of Sindya Bhanoo’s novel Seeking Fortune Elsewhere was published in Commonweal Magazine. 

Muriel Leung and Jackie Wang were selected as finalists for the Lammy Award from Lambda Poetry.

Eugenia Leigh’s “Glossolalia” was featured as Poets.org’s “Poem-A-Day.”

Rajiv Mohabir’s “Pointer Broom” was published in Kenyon Review.

Cathy Linh Che and Christopher Radcliffe received a scoring grant from Rooftop Films for their short documentary film Fade In (working title).

Tiana Nobile’s poem “Mother of Letters” was published by American Life in Poetry.

Seema Yasmin and Purvi Shah were featured authors in Community Building Art Work’s International Women’s Day list.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain was selected as a finalist for the California Book Awards.

Monica Ong’s conversation with María DeGuzmán, Kylie Gellatly, Donna SpruijtMetz, and Keith S. Wilson about Visual Poetry was published in the 2022 issue of Tab Journal.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was reviewed by Library Journal.

Franny Choi’s poem “I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame” was featured on The Slowdown.

E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others was awarded the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives has been shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

February 2022

Paul Tran’s conversation with Rigoberto González was published in Poets & Writers’ March/April 2022 issue. 

Angie Sijun Lou’s “The Motorcycle Factory” won third place for Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Borders Fiction Prize.

Joshua Nguyen’s Come Clean was reviewed in The Rumpus.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain was selected as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry.

Muriel Leung’s “To Molt and to Love You” was chosen as one of the finalists for Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Borders Fiction Prize.

Leah Silvieus’s Arabilis and Seema Yasmin’s God is a Virus were featured in The Poet’s Nightstand by Cathy Linh Che.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was featured in Electric Lit’s “Your Winter Reading Horoscope” list.

Shelley Wong’s forthcoming poetry collection As She Appears is now available for pre-order.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was reviewed and featured in National Book Critics Circle’s “30 Books in 30 Days” list.

Chen Chen was featured as a guest on The Poetry Question podcast.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “Wilder Flowers” was published in the anthology This Book is a Plant.

Matthew Olzmann was interviewed by Four Way Review.

W. Todd Kaneko had three poems published in the ninth issue of Defunct Magazine.

Mai Der Vang was interviewed by Sydney Van To for Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network.

Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling was reviewed by David Woo for the Poetry Foundation. 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan provided the illustrations for Divya Ghelani’s “Thoughts on a Pandemic Book Club: An Illustrated Essay,” which was published on Wasafiri.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s conversation with Michelle Lyn King was published on The Creative Independent.

C.E. Shue’s chapbook Bridge of Knots was chosen by Matthew Salesses for the Gold Line Press Fiction Award.

Jean Chen Ho was featured as a guest on the Write-Minded Podcast.

Lee Choi’s Transverse was reviewed by Anya Reeve for The Oxonian Review.

January 2022

E.J. Koh’s “American Han” was selected for The Atlantic’s “Six Poems to Bring You Comfort This Winter.”

Sarah Kay’s poem “Unreliable” was published in Issue 40 of Adroit Journal.

Tamiko Beyer’s “February” was featured as the “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Chen Chen was selected as one of the 2022 USA Fellowship awardees.

Eugenia Leigh had three poems published in Issue 40 of Adroit Journal. 

Mai Der Vang was selected as a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award in Poetry.

Eddie Kim’s “김장” was selected for the 2022 Best of the Net anthology.

Chen Chen had three poems published in Issue 40 of Adroit Journal.

Paul Tran’s poem “Galileo” was featured as the “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Purvi Shah’s poem “Watering Iridescence” was published by Ecotheo Collective.

Franny Choi’s essay "Racism is a Reboot: Bingeing Battlestar Galactica at the End of the World" is one of Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net finalists.

Chen Chen was a guest on Craft Podcast to talk about his writing process when writing his poem “Nature Poem.”

Jaz Sufi’s “When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down The Towers” was selected for the 2022 Best of the Net anthology.

Hossannah Asuncion’s poem “Suspending Disbelief While Brown, Part II” was published on Poets.org.

Hala Alyan wrote and starred in the short film “Tallahassee,” which was featured on The New Yorker’s Screening Room.

Chris Santiago’s poem “Insurrecto” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was reviewed in The Adroit Journal.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was excerpted by Electric Lit.

Joshua Nguyen is co-editor of the Wit Tea section for The Offing.

F. Douglas Brown’s poem “Aubade with Edits” was featured in Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Chris Santiago had four poems published in Issue 38 of The Adroit Journal.

Shruti Swamy and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello both won a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was featured in an article for NBC News.

Sally Wen Mao’s “Loquats” was featured in The Paris Review’s 2021 Winter issue.

W. Todd Kaneko’s “How to Stay Safe” and “When Our Twin Sons Are Born” were published by Couplet Poetry.

Viplav Saini’s poem “Kintsugi” was published by American Poetry Review.

Jean Chen Ho was interviewed by Ariel Chu for them.

Mai Der Vang’s conversation with Sophia Terazawa was published by Asian American Writers’ Workshop. 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s story “Sound and Vision” was published in Waiting for the Gift: Stories Inspired by Low. 

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was reviewed in The Washington Post.

Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling and Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother were included in Publishing Weekly’s Spring 2022 Announcements for Poetry.

Kyle Lucia Wu was interviewed by Audrey Fong for The Adroit Journal.

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was excerpted by Literary Hub.

Ocean Vuong performed a reading of C.D. Wright’s poem “Tours” for Ours Poetica’s youtube channel. 

Jean Chen Ho was interviewed by Benedict Nguyễn for Bomb Magazine.

Truong Tran’s “Begin Again” was the featured “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Disfigures” was published in Issue 38 of The Adroit Journal.

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was reviewed in the New York Times.

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “The First Leaf” was published in Spillway #29.

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was excerpted by The Cut.

December 2021

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E.J. Koh’s translation of Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle was featured as one of Zephyr Press’ 2021 highlights.

Chen Chen’s poem “Winter” was published in Cape Cod Poetry Review’s Summer 2021 issue.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s article “A Year in Reading” was published by The Millions. 

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was excerpted by Marie Claire and chosen as their January Book Club Pick.

George Abraham’s essay “Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse” was featured as one of Longreads’ Top Picks of 2021.

Jasmine Sawers’ piece “So Your Dad’s Having a Midlife Crisis” was published by Rejection Letters.

Lillian Li’s article “Nothing is More American than Chinese Food on Christmas” was published in The New York Times’ opinions section.

Jane Wong, Rajiv Mohabir, and Mai Der Vang are on the 2022 PEN America Literary Award Longlist.

Chris Santiago’s poem “Golden Age” was featured on The Slowdown.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was named one of “The Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2022” by Electric Lit.

Rajiv Mohabir was interviewed by Mathangi Subramanian for BOMB Magazine to discuss his memoir Antiman. 

Shelley Wong’s poem “The Winter Forecast” was published in the winter issue of New England Review.

Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void, Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm, Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish, and Tiana Nobile’s Cleave appeared on the most “Best Poetry Books of 2021” lists, according to Book Scrolling.

Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother and Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane were featured on Time Magazine’s “The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2022” list.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain appeared in The New Yorker’s “Briefly Noted Book Reviews.”

Lee Choi’s Transverse was included on Dennis Cooper’s “Best of 2021” list.

Franny Choi’s “Prayer for the Untranslated Testimony” and “Demilitarized Zone” and E.J. Koh’s “Hysteria” were included in the latest issue of Lantern Review, which was edited by Eugenia Leigh and Iris A. Law.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was named one of ​​"The Most Exciting Book Releases of 2022” by Angela Lashbrook.

Kien Lam’s poem “Almost” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Offing.

Mai Der Vang was selected as one of the judges for the The George Bogin Award by the Poetry Society.

Chen Chen’s “In The Hospital” was read on The Line Break Podcast.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Tiana Nobile’s conversation on transracial and transnational adoption was published on Poets & Writers.

Mai Der Vang’s essay about her book Yellow Rain was published by Entropy Magazine.

George Abraham’s “from UNIVERSAL THEORY IN WHICH EVERY FAILED ATTEMPT AT LOVE IS A SOULMATE FROM AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE” was published in Fiyah Magazine.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane and Matthew Olzmann’s Constellation Route were included on the Rumpus’ “What to Read When 2022 is Just Around the Corner” list.

E.J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s translation of Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle was included as one of Kenyon Review’s Holiday Reading Recommendations.

Truong Tran was interviewed by Muriel Leung for the Poetry Foundation to speak about his collection Book of the Other.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir, Matthew Salesses’ Craft in the Real World, E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others, and Sejal Shah’s This is One Way to Dance were included on Entropy Magazine’s “Best Nonfiction Books of 2021” list.

Mai Der Vang and Sophia Terezawa’s conversation about their poetry collections was published by Asian American Writers Workshop.

George Abraham, Kimberly Alidio, Cathy Linh Che, Franny Choi, Angie Sijun Lou, Ocean Vuong, and Jane Wong each had their poems included in Entropy Magazine’s "Best of 2020-2021: Favorite Poems Published Online” list.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Like a Dish Rag Soaked in Bleach" was nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.

Angie Sijun Lou’s “The Nü Country” was published by Kenyon Review.

Lindsay Choi, Jackie Wang, Muriel Leung, Mai Der Vang, Jane Wong, George Abraham, Jessica Abughattas, Rajiv Mohabir, Truong Tran, and Tiana Nobile were each included on Entropy Magazine’s “Best of 2020-2021 Poetry Books" list.

November 2021

Patrick Rosal’s The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems was featured as one of The New York Times “8 New Books We Recommend this Week.”

Muriel Leung created the cover art for the UK release of Chen Chen’s new book Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency.

Aria Aber read Frank Bidart with Kevin Young for The New Yorker Podcast.

R.A. Villanueva performed a reading of "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay for Ours Poetica’s Youtube channel.

W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Monster Theory” was nominated by Broadsided Press for their annual Pushcart Prizes.

Monica Ong’s visual poem Her Gaze was published in Tab Journal’s latest issue.

Peter Ho Davies was interviewed by Daniel Tam-Claiborne for The Rumpus.

Chen Chen’s book Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency will be released in Fall 2022.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives & Kyle Lucia Wu’s Win Me Something were featured on Book Riot’s “9 Great Book Club Picks To Start A Conversation” list.

Eugenia Leigh’s piece “Bipolar II Disorder: Third Evaluation (Ode to the Brain)” was published by Poetry Northwest.

Seema Yasmin’s poetry collection If God is a Virus was picked as one of the New York Public Library’s 2021 Best Books for Adults.

Joshua Nguyen’s poetry collection Come Clean is now available to order from University of Wisconsin Press. 

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” was featured as the poem of the day for The Slowdown.

Ploi Pirapokin’s essay “Help the Shoots Grow, Pull Them” was featured in issue 11 of Khôra.

Tamiko Beyer interviewed her partner Patti Lynn and fellow activists for her monthly newsletter Starlight and Strategy.

George Abraham interviewed Mohammed El-Kurd about Jerusalem, the revolutionary potential of poetry, and El-Kurd's new book, Rifqa, for Mondoweiss.

Craig Santos Perez was featured on the first episode of Vosa Podcast’s new second season.

Tiana Nobile was interviewed by Stacy Balkun for the University of Arizona Poetry Center about her book Cleave.

Jackie Wang’s poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void was included in Vox’s guide to the 2021 National Book Award finalists.

Jane Wong’s debut memoir Meet Me in Atlantic City will be published in Winter 2023 by Tin House.

Truong Tran was interviewed by PEN America on his new collection Book of the Other.

Mayukh Sen’s nonfiction book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America is now available to purchase from W.W. Norton & Company.

Tiana Nobile and Muriel Leung’s conversation on their new poetry collections was published in Hyphen Magazine.

Troy Osaki’s poem, “Not My Barong from the Closed-Down Asian Mart on Lake City Way but Another One,” was published in the sixth issue of Underblong.

George Abraham won a 2021 Arab American Book Award for his Button Poetry book Birthright. 

Sejal Shah was interviewed by Valerie Boyd for the November issue of Creative Nonfiction. 

Chris Santiago was featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Copper Nickel.

Sejal Shah and Shebani Rao’s illustrated music playlist, "Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration," was published in Literary Hub.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was excerpted by Guernica.

Franny Choi read her poem “Turing Test_Love” for Ours Poetica's Youtube channel.

Jai Dulani’s manuscript Language We Fall Through was selected as a finalist for Kelsey Street Press’ first QTBIPOC poetry prize.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s essay, “Writing an Ordinary Existence,” was published by Catapult.

J. Mae Barizo’s book Tender Machines will be published by Tupelo Press.

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “The Children of Lions” was selected as The Yale Review’s Poem of the Week.

Melody S. Gee’s poetry chapbook The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat was the runner-up in Driftwood Press’ Adrift Chapbook contest.

Muriel Leung’s new essay “Erasure in Three Acts” was published by the Poetry Foundation.

Kyle Lucia Wu was interviewed by Jen Lue for Bomb Magazine. 

Mayukh Sen’s forthcoming debut nonfiction book Taste Makers was excerpted in The New Yorker, for a four-part food column based on the book.

Jai Dulani had four poems published by The Rumpus.

October 2021

Lindsay Choi’s book Transverse was published by Future Poems.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was featured in NPR's "November Book-Ahead: What We're Excited To Read Next Month."

Karissa Chen's essay will be included in the forthcoming Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves, edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile. 

Rajiv Mohabir was interviewed on his upcoming memoir Antiman and his poetry collection Cutlish by The Rumpus.

Matthew Salesses’ book Craft in the Real World was featured in “How the Hell Do We Fix the Creative Writing Workshop?” in The Nation.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s collaboration with Gabrielle Bates, “So We Must Meet Apart,” was featured in the November issue of Poetry Magazine.

Ina Cariño was selected as one of the winners of the 2020 and 2021 Discovery Poetry Contest by 92Y Poetry.

Craig Santos Perez’s poem, “Love in a Time of Climate Change,” was chosen by Kwame Dawes to be featured in the American Life in Poetry project.

Monica Ong’s poem, “The Way of Karma,” was published in the November issue of Scientific American.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was selected as one of the Best Books of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar.

Franny Choi’s essay, “Imitation Games,” was published by Gulf Coast. 

Mayukh Sen curated MAYUKH SEN SELECTS for The Metrograph, a series of four films that inspired his upcoming nonfiction book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America.

E.J. Koh was featured as a guest on The Poetry Magazine Podcast to talk about the untranslatability of Han.

Rammel Chan’s short story “Tourists” was published in the 2020 edition of The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Jean Chen Ho’s new novel Fiona and Jane was reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly.

Shelley Wong, Chen Chen, Monica Youn, Monica Sok, Paul Tran, Jay Deshpande, Sally Wen Mao, and Arthur Sze were featured in The Best of American Poetry series for 2021.

Shruti Swami talked about her new novel The Archer with Daniel Handler as a part of Book Passage’s “Conversations with Authors” series on Youtube.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was selected as one of  The 25 Indie Next Great Reads for November by the American Bookseller’s Association.

Rajesh Parameswaran’s essay “I Was a Lifelong Vegetarian. I Decided to Taste What I Was Missing” was published by Bon Appétit.

Patrick Rosal’s new book The Last Thing was featured as a Poetry Pick for People Magazine.

Jean Chen Ho’s piece “Can posting a thirst trap on Instagram help you process grief after unspeakable loss?” was published by the LA Times as a part of Image issue 5. 

Victoria Chang’s memoir Dear Memory was featured in an article by NPR.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was excerpted on The Rumpus.

Abeer Hoque’s essay “A Freelancer Talks Money and Writing” was published on Catapult.

E.J. Koh had two of her poems published in Poetry Magazine’s 2021 October issue.

Kazim Ali’s book The Citadel of Whispers was just released as a part of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. 

Grace Talusan, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sarah Gambito, Paolo Javier, and Gina Apostol each had writings featured in CLMP’s “A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2021”.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down the Towers” was nominated for Best of the Net by Southeast Review.

Hyejung Kook’s poem “Self-Portrait as Ghost” was published in Bear Review. 

George Abraham’s essay “The Im/possibility of Being a Queer Palestinian in America” was published by Them.

Jen Lue and Katie Yee were selected as two of the 2021 Center for Fiction’s Emerging Writers Fellows.

September 2021

EJ Koh’s poem “American Han” was published in Poetry Magazine’s October 2021 issue.

Don Mee Choi won a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship.

George Abraham’s essay “Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse” was published in Guernica Magazine.

Karen An-hwei Lee's collaborative prose piece "Souvenirs” with Andrew Colarusso is now available for pre-order from Baobab Press.

Porochista Khakpour interviewed Asali Solomon on her new novel The Days of Afrekete in Bookforum.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “A Working Theory of Eyes” from West Trestle Review was nominated for Sundress Pub’s Best of the Net.

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “December 3, 1975” was published in The Nation.

Sandra Lim’s poetry collection “The Curious Thing” was reviewed by Aria Aber in the LA Review of Books.

Jennifer Chang’s poems “Time, Rampant and Flourishing” and “The Lonely Humans” were published in Yale Review.

Hazem Fahmy published a book review on Andrea Abi-Karam’s poetry collection “Villainy” in the LA Review of Books.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Jane Wong, and Shelley Wong were selected as winners and finalists for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for women creatives.

Monique Truong was selected as a finalist for Longwood University’s 2021 Jon Dos Passos Prize, which recognizes the country’s “most talented but under-appreciated writers.”

Melody S. Gee published book reviews on Ly Tran’s “House of Sticks” and Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H-Mart” in Commonweal Magazine.

Monica Youn’s poem “Leave” was published in Poem-a-Day.

Craig Santos Perez was recognized in the 2021 Grist 50 “Fixers,” a list that celebrates emerging climate leaders. His eco-poetry was also featured in a collaborative music project, “Love Poems in the Time of Climate Change.”

Prageeta Sharma’s poem “Widowing” was published in Yale Review.

Matthew Salesses was featured in write-minded’s podcast episode, “Craft Is Never Neutral,” and interviewed by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner.

Ocean Vuong was interviewed by E. Alex Jung in Fantastic Man on his upcoming poetry collection, “Time is a Mother.”

Nawaaz Ahmed was interviewed by Kavita Das on his debut novel Radiant Fugitives.

Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Su Cho in a Poetry Foundation podcast about her poem “My Whole Life I Was Trained to Deny Myself” from the September issue of Poetry.

Mai Der Vang’s second poetry collection “Yellow Rain” was published by Graywolf Press. She was also interviewed in Electric Literature, Poetry Foundation, and The Rumpus.

Victoria Chang's forthcoming memoir Dear Memory was reviewed by Mandana Chaffa for the Colorado Review.

Monica Ong’s visual poetry piece “The Way of Milk” was published in Foundation.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “The Fox From ‘The Fable of the Fox and the Weasel’ by Benjamin Larnell,” “Midwinter,” and “Quarrystone” were published in Plume.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “All You Have to Do is Die,” from the collection “Writing the Uncanny,” was featured in The Paris Review.

Gowri Koneswaran received a 2021 Tanne Foundation Award.

Chen Chen was interviewed in Poetry Foundation’s podcast Poetry Off the Shelf.

Jackie Wang’s poetry collection “The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void” was long-listed for the 2021 National Book Awards for poetry.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poetry collection “Cutlish” was published from Four Way Books. He was also interviewed in Full Stop magazine about his writing process.

Cathy Park Hong was featured on the front cover of TIME’s Top 100 Most Influential People issue. Her article on the organization Stop AAPI Hate was also featured in the issue.

Sandra Lim was interviewed in McSweeney’s about her forthcoming poetry collection “The Curious Thing.”

Jennifer Chang’s poem “The Lonely Humans” was published in American Poetry Review.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s “Radiant Fugitives” was excerpted in a Mint Lounge.

Craig Santos Perez’s poems “Summer Solstice Sonnet During the Pandemic” and “Winter Solstice Sonnet During the Pandemic” were published in Hopkins Review’s special sonnet issue.

Patrick Rosal’s poem “When Prince was Filipino” was published in American Poetry Review.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s illustrations were featured in “Looking: Large and Small,” a collaborative visual prose piece with Jessica J. Lee and published by The National Writers Centre and The Willowherb Review.

Danny Thanh Nguyen’s essay “My Leather and Whips Don’t Make Me Masculine” was published in them.

E.J. Koh’s 2020 debut memoir The Magical Language of Others won the Washington State Book Award for Biography/Memoir.

George Abraham’s debut poetry collection “Birthright” won the 2021 Arab American Book Award’s George Ellenborgen poetry prize.

Steven Duong’s poem “Good Dog” was published in Chen Chen’s Twitter journal the lickety~split.

Sandra Lim, Rajiv Mohabir, Patrick Rosal, and Mai Der Vang’s poetry collections were all featured in Lantern Review’s Fresh Books for Fall 2021 List.

Patrick Rosal’s forthcoming poetry collection The Last Thing is now available for pre-order from Persea Books.

Monica Ong was interviewed in Buddhability on her visual poetry, creative resistance, and relationship to Buddhism.

George Abraham’s poem “Taking Back Jerusalem” was published in World Literature Today.

Shruti Swamy’s novel The Archer was reviewed in Buzzfeed News and NPR Books.

Moeko Fujii’s essay “Fake Plants” was published in Orion Magazine.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poetry collection “Cutlish” was featured in Lambda Literary’s most anticipated LGBTQIA+ literature list for September and was reviewed in Library Journal.

Eugenia Leigh’s poems “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Han (한 / 恨)” and “My Whole Life I was Trained to Deny Myself” were published in Poetry Foundation.

Kien Lam’s debut book Extinction Theory was selected by the National Poetry Series for publication by University of Georgia Press.

Shelley Wong’s poems “The Allergy Test,” “Pursuit,” and “Beach Date with End of the Alphabet Game” were published in The Offing.

Craig Santos Perez was featured in Yale Climate Connections’ radio program.

George Abraham was interviewed in a VS Podcast with Franny Choi and Danez Smith.

E.J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s translation of Yi Won’s “The World’s Lightest Motorcycle” is now available for pre-order from Zephyr Press.

August 2021

Franny Choi’s lyric essay “BLADE RUNNER (1982)” was published in Stillpoint Magazine.

Karen Gu’s essay “Work / Life Balance” was published in The Margins.

Chris Santiago’s poems “States & Capitals,” “The Third Anniversary of Your Mother’s Death,” “Poem with Lines from Doug Manuel,” and “New Classmate” were published in The Adroit Journal.

Bich Minh Nguyen’s essay, “The Chair Is a Pretty Accurate Portrayal of What It's Like to Be a Woman Professor of Color. That's Why It Can Be Painful to Watch” was published in TIME.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Disfigures” was published in The Adroit Journal.

Matthew Salesses was interviewed in LitHub and Poets & Writers about his book Craft in the Real World.

Annie Trinh’s short fiction piece “The Language of Melons” was published in Joyland Magazine.

Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties was reviewed in VOANews Cambodia.

Margaret Rhee’s poetry manuscript Reclamation or My Body Instead was a finalist for Kelsey Street Press’s first QTBIPOC poetry prize.

Kazim Ali’s essay “Fall 2011: A Journal” was published in Air/Light Magazine, which also features an interview regarding his new memoir, “Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water.”

Tamiko Beyer’s essay “Poems Are Only Mine to Give Away (Part II)” was published in Poetry Foundation.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel Radiant Fugitives was featured in Poets & Writers’ “Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin” feature.

E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others was featured in Book Riot’s list of “10 Genre-Defying Memoirs You Need to Read.”

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello & E.J. Koh were featured in Mia You’s essay in Poetry Foundation for translating Zephyr Press’s forthcoming Korean title The World’s Lightest Motorcycle by Yi Won.

Joshua Nguyen’s poetry collection Come Clean is now available for pre-order from University of Wisconsin Press.

Karen An-hwei Lee’s was interviewed by Slant Books about her poetry collection Rose is a Verb.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s debut novel Win Me Something was reviewed by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and featured in Good Housekeeping’s 25 New Fall Books You Have to Read This Season list.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “A little wildness” was published in Wellcome Collection.

Rohan Chhetri was interviewed byTupelo Quarterly about his upcoming poetry collection Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful.

Matthew Salesses’ book Craft and the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping was featured in The Millions’ Top Ten List for July.

Monica Sok’s poem “ABC for Refugees” was reviewed by Emily Yoon in The Sewanee Review.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel Radiant Fugitives was reviewed in The Atlantic.

Vidhu Aggarwal was interviewed in Medium on her poetry collection Daughter Isotope.

Ligaya Mishan’s article “The Asian Pop Stars Taking Center Stage” and “The March of the Karens” was published in The New York Times.

Oliver de la Paz was interviewed in The Rumpus.

Sabina Murray was interviewed in Literary Hub on her novel The Human Zoo.

Troy Osaki’s poem “In the Months Before My Beloved Is Tagged a Terrorist” was published in The Margins.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Tiana Nobile were interviewed for “Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence” in Catapult.

Monica Ong’s visual poetry series Planetaria was featured in Hyperallergic.

Christine Shan Shan Hou’s interview “The Poetics of Being Seen” with Elaine Khan was featured in Harpers Bazaar.

Porochista Khakpour’s ode to Stephen Dixon was excerpted in The Millions and featured in Mcsweeney’s Issue 63.

Kimberly Alidio’s poem “a feeling has passed before a charted present” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s novel Radiant Fugitives was published by Counterpoint Press.

Danny Thanh Nguyen’s essay “‘Anthony Veasna So’s Stories of a Generation Will Live Long After His Death” was published in GQ Magazine.

Dan Lau’s poem “XX Judgement” was published in Poem-a-Day.

Karissa Chen’s essay “Tea Eggs Have Always Tasted Like Home” was published in Catapult.

July 2021

Rajiv Mohabir’s new poetry collection Cutlish is now available for preorder from Four Way Books.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Letter to a Bridge Made of Rope” was published in The New York Times.

Franny Choi’s poetry collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and essay collection Miss Cyborg earned a book deal with Jenny Xu at Mariner Books.

George Abraham’s excerpt from Paradise Lost, their first playwriting publication and in collaboration with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, was shared by Mosaic Theater Company.

Melody S. Gee’s essay “After Our Roots Have Thirsted” was published in Essay Daily.

Hua Hsu’s article “Anthony Veasna So Takes on Trauma, But Doesn’t Leave Out the Jokes” was published in The New Yorker.

Patrick Rosal’s poem “The Woman You Love Cuts Apples for You” was published in The New York Times.

Troy Osaki’s poems “On the Bolo Knife” and “Since Anchoring to San Francisco Docks, 1945” were published in PANK Magazine.

Kien Lam’s poems “Almost,” “Monstro,” and “Autopsy” were published in The Offing.

Kazim Ali’s memoir Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Pik-Shuen Fung was interviewed in The Rumpus for her novel Ghost Forest.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem “A Love Note” was published in Poem-a-Day.

Bonnie Chau’s prose piece “Now Spring, Now Fall” was published in Black Sun Lit.

Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, Eddie Kim, and Bethany Swann’s poetry were published in Lantern Review’s July 2021 issue.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders won Ohioana Library’s 2021 Book Award for nonfiction.

Margaret Rhee’s poem “The Year Before I Left For Mars” was published in Poem-a-Day.

R.A. Villanueva’s poem “Epithalamion, Ithaka” was commissioned as part of the UK podcast series, Bedtime Stories for the End of the World.

Nawaaz Ahmed, Peter Ho Davies, Pik-Shuen Fung, Mayukh Sen, Anthony Veasna So, Shruti Swamy, and Kyle Lucia Wu were all featured in The Millions’s “Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Review” list.

Shelley Wong’s poem “Pride Month” was featured in Queer Poem-a-Day podcast. Her poem “Open Season” was also part of SPACE’s 2021 Poetry Hotline.

Ina Cariño’s music piece “Salidummay” was published by Air/Light magazine.

Tiana Nobile was interviewed by EcoTheo Collective for her poetry collection, Cleave.

Jen Lue’s short story “Double Happiness” was published in Sepia Journal.

Wo Chan’s poem “the shoes” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Monica Ong’s cross-genre poems “Solstice Blessing” & “Diaspora Nova” were published in Poetry magazine.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s prose piece “More Politics Than Poetry” was published in Poetry magazine.

Hyejung Kook’s poem “Spring Coronal” was published in Poetry magazine.

George Abraham’s poem “Searching for a Palestinian Necropastoral (Eve)” was shared by Poem-a-Day.

June 2021

Paul Tran’s poem “Bioluminescence” was featured in The New Yorker.

Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir Antiman was reviewed in NPR Books, Brown Girl Magazine, and The Washington Post.

Chen Chen’s poem “The Galloping Thing” was featured in The Massachusetts Review.

Tiana Nobile’s debut poetry book Cleave was reviewed in The Rumpus.

Sarah Wang received the 2021–2022 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship.

Promiti Islam’s short fiction piece “The Salted Sea” was featured in The Margins.

Sahar Muradi’s poem "washee / was she" was selected and printed by the Center for Book Arts 2021 Broadside Reading Series. Her hybrid essay, "Ask Hafiz: A Migration Story Told Through Poetic Divination,” also won the 2021 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize, which includes publication.

Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir Antiman was featured in Books are Magic’s “Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2021.”

Pik-Shuen Fung’s debut novel Ghost Forest was featured in The Boston Globe’s “Summer Reading 2021.”

Nawaaz Ahmed’s novel Radiant Fugitives received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Monica Ong’s exhibition of visual poetry Planetaria is featured at the Institute Library of New Haven.

Hazem Fahmy’s poem “Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Hanae Jonas’s poem “Pastoral” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Sally Wen Mao’s essay “High-Rise Syndrome” was featured in The Believer.

Catherine Flora Con’s short story “Mother Root” was featured in Joyland.

Timothy Yu’s book Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Muriel Leung and Paisley Rekdal had their books featured in Lantern Review’s “An Asian American Poetry Companion: Must-Read Titles for Summer 2021.”

Ina Cariño won the 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.

Muriel Leung was interviewed about her book Imagine Us, The Swarm in Lambda Literary.

Ayesha Raees’s poem “All Along, I Laid, Halved” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s essay “Gifts from the Trees” was featured in The Paris Review.

Promiti Islam’s essay “A Gay Gaye Holud for Two Bengali Brides” was featured in Catapult.

May 2021

Chen Chen’s poem “i love you to the moon &” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

George Abraham’s poem “Searching for A Palestinian After” was featured in The Nation.

Paul Tran’s poem “Hypothesis” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Kyle Lucia Wu, Anthony Veasna So, Matthew Salesses, Matthew Olzmann, Shruti Swamy, K-Ming Chang, Pik-Shuen Fung, Kazim Ali, Tamiko Beyer, Jane Wong, Mai Der Vang, Rajiv Mohabir, Jackie Wang, Larissa Pham, and Sejal Shah were featured in The Rumpus’s “What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month.”

Chen Chen and T Kira Madden were featured in NPR’s “Engaging With Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month: A Reading List.”

Jane Wong’s poem “The Waiting” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Kazim Ali’s poem “new year / dec 30, 2020” was featured in Wildness Journal.

Lan Samantha Chang is the recipient of a Fall 2021 Berlin Prize from The American Academy in Berlin.

Rick Barot’s poem “Moving the Bones” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Seema Yasmin, Jackie Wang, and Muriel Leung had their poetry books featured in “2021 Poetry for the Rest of Us” in Ms Magazine.

Muriel Leung’s poetry book Imagine Us, The Swarm is featured in “May’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature” at Lambda Literary.

Mai Der Vang’s poetry book Yellow Rain is forthcoming with Graywolf Press.

Cathy Park Hong, Kimiko Hahn, Meng Jin, and Sejal Shah are featured in “20 New Asian American Books to Read Right Now” in Electric Lit.

Paul Tran read their poem “The Cave” on 92Y’s podcast Read By.

April 2021

Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern is forthcoming with Riverhead Books.

Jessica Abughattas has three poems featured in Miracle Monocle.

Chen Chen’s craft book In Cahoots With the Rabbit God is forthcoming with Noemi Press.

Janine Joseph’s poem “My Chiropractor Gives Me a Name” was featured in The Rumpus.

E.J. Koh’s literary guide to Seattle was featured in Poets & Writers.

Tiana Nobile’s poem “/ˈmīɡrənt/” was featured in Poetry Daily.

Rajiv Mohabir’s collaborative chapbook with Rushi Vyas Between Us, Not Half a Saint was published by Gasher Journal.

Alicia Fuhrman’s story “Sky Parade” won first prize in the 2020 Hackney Literary Awards National Competition.

Gowri Koneswaran and Aurora Masum-Javed received 2021 MCW Scholarships to attend the Medocino Coast Writers’ Conference.

Don Mee Choi and Sandra Lim received Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in Poetry.

Pik-Shuen Fung’s forthcoming debut novel Ghost Forest received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Jess Rizkallah’s poetry book the magic my body becomes was featured in Electric Literature’s article “7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women.”

Tiana Nobile’s poetry book CLEAVE and Tamiko Beyer’s poetry book Last Days were featured in “What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry” in The Rumpus.

E. J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others and Ed Lin’s novel David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College were featured in “12 of the Best Books by Writers of the Asian Diaspora” in Oprah Daily.

Jess Rizkallah’s poetry book the magic my body becomes was featured in “7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women” in Electric Literature.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Like a Dish Rag Soaked in Bleach” was featured in The Rumpus.

March 2021

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Ode to Sitting in a Booth” was featured in Poem-a-day.

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “‘I love the smell of napalm…’ a golden shovel” was featured in The New Republic.

Shruti Swamy’s short story collection A House is a Body was reviewed in The Adroit Journal.

Aria Aber’s poem “Dirt and Light” was featured in The New Yorker.

Timothy Yu edited The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry.

Muriel Leung was interviewed on Sundress Blog about her forthcoming book Imagine Us, The Swarm.

Jan-Henry Gray and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco received honorable mentions in the 2021 AAAS Book Awards in Poetry and Prose.

Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s Colonize Me won the 2021 AAAS Book Award in Poetry.

Paisley Rekdal was interviewed by Victoria Chang in Tupelo Quarterly.

Kimberly Alidio’s poetry book : once teeth bones coral : is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Poetry.

K-Ming Chang’s novel Bestiary is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Fiction.

George Abraham’s poetry book Birthright is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Bisexual Poetry.

Jen Lue’s short story "Wants” was featured in Joyland Magazine.

Jai Dulani reviewed We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics in Autostraddle.

Michelle Lin and Kazumi Chin’s podcast We Won’t Move: A Living Archive with Kearny Street Workshop released its first episode.

Kazim Ali’s nonfiction book Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water was published by Milkweed.

Jean Chen Ho’s debut short story collection Fiona and Jane is coming out with Viking Books on November 9, 2021.

Gowri Koneswaran’s hybrid piece “Take Your Impunity” was featured in ADI Magazine.

Julie Ae Kim’s essay “Political Solidarity Is A Solution to Attacks Against Asian Americans” was featured in Harper’s Bazaar.

Ina Cariño’s poetry collection Feast won the 2021 Alice James Award.

Rajiv Mohabir’s forthcoming memoir Antiman was featured in The Boston Globe.

Jessica Abughattas was interviewed about her debut collection Strip in Rogue Agent Journal.

Joshua Nguyen won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for his debut poetry manuscript Come Clean, out in the fall of 2021 with University of Wisconsin Press.

K-Ming Chang’s flash fiction story “Phantom” was featured in Hobart.

February 2021

Margaret Rhee’s short story “Library of Lost Poetry Machines” was featured in The Margins’ #WeToo Series.

Jessica Abughattas was interviewed in THE BOILER.

Jean Chen Ho’s essay “Bling Empire and the Energizing Potential of Asian-American Mediocrity” was featured in Harper’s Bazaar.

Gina Apostol’s essay “A Speech of One’s Own” was featured in Evergreen Review and made the foreword to Ulirat: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines.

Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony was reviewed in Hyperallergic.

Gowri Koneswaran’s lyric essay “The Preferred Terms are Mine” was featured in The Margins’ #WeToo Series.

George Abraham has three poems featured in The Journal.

Shruti Swamy’s book A House is a Body was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E. J. Koh’s translations of Yi Won were published in Denver Quarterly.

Wo Chan’s debut poetry book Togetherness won the 2021 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and will be published in 2022.

William Pei Shih’s short story “The Food Photographer” was featured in wildness journal.

Todd Kaneko’s “All the Things That Make Heaven and Earth” was featured in Poetry Daily.

Janine Joseph’s poem “Love in the Time of Vertigo” was featured in Mumber Mag.

Paul Tran’s poem “Provenance” was featured in The Nation.

Joshua Nguyen’s micro-chapbook American Lục Bát for My Mother is forthcoming with Bull City Press.

Jenny Xie’s short story “Roadkill” was featured in Joyland Magazine.

Oliver de la Paz, Sally Wen Mao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Matthew Olzmann, and Paul Tran received 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships.

Rohan Chhetri received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation from the Nepali of The Dust Draws Its Face on the Wind: Essential Poems by Avinash Shrestha.

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself” was featured in The Nation.

Jasmine Sawers’s flash piece “Fairest” was featured in HOOT Review.

K-Ming Chang and Matthew Salesses have their novels Bestiary and Disappear, Doppelgänger, Disappear on the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Longlist!

Chen Chen co-created a poetry and dance collaboration with Pao Arts Center in Chinatown Boston.

January 2021

Franny Choi has a review of Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart in The Georgia Review.

Seema Yasmin’s debut poetry collection If God is a Virus is forthcoming with Haymarket Books.

George Abraham’s essay “Re-Embodying Palestinian Memory” was featured in Public Books.

Cathy Park Hong and Victoria Chang are finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards for their books Minor Feelings and Obit.

Hala Alyan’s novel The Arsonists’ City received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Matthew Salesses has an excerpt from his book Craft in the Real World featured in No Tokens Journal.

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “How the Dung Beetle Finds its Way Home” was featured in Ploughshares.

Rajiv Mohabir’s hybrid memoir Antiman is forthcoming with Restless Books.

Matthew Olzmann’s poems “Before We Go Any Further I Want to Publicly Acknowledge” and “Kummerspeck” were featured in Body Literature.

Gina Apostol’s novel The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata was reviewed in The New York Times.

Jessica Abughattas was interviewed in The Adroit Journal.

E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others received the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Hala Alyan’s poem “Object Permanence” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Shruti Swamy, EJ Koh, Meng Jin, Victoria Chang, and Craig Santos Perez were nominated to the 2021 PEN America Literary Award Longlists.

Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony received a four star review in The Harvard Crimson.

Larissa Pham and Hala Alyan were featured in Electric Literature’s article “44 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2021.”

Matthew Salesses, Larissa Pham, Hala Alyan, Muriel Leung, and Anthony Veasna So were featured in Lithub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021.”

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “June Fourteenth” was featured in Crab Creek Review.

Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “The New Decade” was featured in Poem-a-Day.

Aria Aber’s poem “An Essay on Loss” was featured in Poetry Magazine.

Pik-Shuen Fung’s forthcoming novel Ghost Forest was featured in Electric Literature’s “27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021.”

December 2020

George Abraham and Meng Jin had their books Birthright and Little Gods featured in The Millions’ A Year in Reading by Meg Giddings.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s essay “Cancer is a Day that Never Ends” was featured in Joyland Magazine.

Jan Henry Gray was interviewed by Yale-NUS College Introduction to Poetry 2020.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s book Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved was reviewed in Poetry Flash.

Anne Kwok’s poem “Night Fever at Grandma’s House” won third place prize in No Tokens Journal’s Young Poets’ Prize.

K-Ming Chang’s short story collection Resident Aliens is forthcoming with One World Books.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s flash fiction story “Objects” was featured in AAWW: The Margins.

Meng Jin received a 2021 Creative Capital Award for her project Mothers and Girls: A Fake Memoir.

Mayukh Sen’s essay “Bengali First: The Fierce Commitments of Soumitra Chatterjee” was featured in Criterion Collection.

Lillian Li’s novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was New York Public Library’s Book of the Day.

Jessica Yuan’s poem “Disorientation” was included in Best New Poets 2020.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book World of Wonders was Barnes & Nobles’s Book of the Year.

Sigrid Nunez and Cathy Park Hong had their books included in New York Times Books Critics’ Top Books of 2020.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “Bill Pay” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Split this Rock.

Cathy Park Hong, K-Ming Chang, and Sejal Shah had their books included in NPR’s Best Books of 2020.

Jen Lue’s story “Hello, doorknob” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins.

November 2020

Helene Achanzar joined Poetry Northwest as an editorial assistant.

Chen Chen was interviewed by Karen Zheng in Lantern Review.

Rick Barot and Monica Sok had their poetry collections included in New York Public Library’s list of 2020’s Best Books.

Craig Santos Perez’s academic book Navigating Chamoru Poetry from Guåhan is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press in 2021.

Helene Achanzar’s poem “Marfa (Again and Beyond)” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Sixth Finch.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book of essays World of Wonders was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello has two poems featured in Kenyon Review Online.

Justin Rovillos Monson’s poem “everybody dies” was featured in The Atlantic.

Jasmine Sawers’s flash story “Still Life with Conch Shell” was featured in The Margins.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Commencement Speech, Delivered to a Herd of Walrus Calves” was featured in Four Way Review.

Don Mee Choi’s collection DMZ Colony won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.

Chen Chen’s essays “Against Universality, in Praise of Anger” and “On Nightmares” were featured in the Poets & Writers Craft Capsule series.

George Abraham’s poems “before he was their ‘great poet’” and “Autobiography Of.” are featured in The Baffler.

Christopher James Llego’s short story “Docile Bodies,” published first in McSweeney’s 62: Queer Fiction, was featured on Electric Literature.

Paul Tran’s first book of poetry All The Flowers Kneeling is coming out Spring 2022 with Penguin Books.

Rajiv Mohabir has six poems featured in South Asian Avant Garde Anthology with AAWW.

Beth Nguyen’s essay “Cake Isn't Just Cake During a Pandemic. Here's What I Learned Decades Ago About Baking in Anxious Times” was featured in TIME.

Ayesha Raees’s poetry collection Coining a Wishing Tower was chosen by Kaveh Akbar as the 2020 Broken River Prize Winner with Platypus Press.

K-Ming Chang’s short story “An Aquatic History of My Family” was featured in The Margins Land Folio.

October 2020

Ed Lin has an excerpt from his YA debut David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until he Graduates from an Ivy League College featured in Teen Vogue.

Timothy Moore’s stories “Apology to my Father on his Sixtieth Birthday” and “Latter Days” were featured in Midnight Breakfast.

Andie Millares’s essay “How Did Vicks VapoRub Become Every Brown Person’s Cure-All?” was featured in Catapult.

Sadia Quraeshi Shepard’s flash story “Monsters” was featured in Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins.

Shruti Swamy’s flash story “In Blue” was featured in The Cincinnati Review’s miCRo.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Sunday Stroll Through the Marriage Market” was featured in The Adroit Journal.

Don Mee Choi has an excerpt from her poem “The Orphans” featured in Poetry Daily.

E. J. Koh was interviewed by Helena de Groot on Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Off the Shelf.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil was interviewed by Ross Gay for Poets & Writers.

Kazim Ali, Jessica Abughattas, and K-Ming Chang are featured in Lantern Review’s article, “An October APA Poetry Companion: Books to Curl Up With for Fall.”

Kenji Liu has six translations of Morio Hayashida’s poems featured in Asymptote.

Shelley Wong’s poems “Refrain” and “Walking Across Fire Island” were featured in Waxwing.

George Abraham’s poetry collection Birthright was reviewed in The Rumpus.

Matthew Salesses’s novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear is featured in Electric Lit’s article, “10 Contemporary Books by Korean American Writers.”

Franny Choi’s essay “Racism is a Reboot: Binging Battlestar Galactica at the End of a World” was featured in The Rumpus.

K-Ming Chang’s flash story “Deal” was featured in Wigleaf.

Helene Achanzar’s poem “O desire, I grow my hair long” is Poem of the Week at Poetry Northwest.

Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award.

Joseph O. Legaspi, Jenny M. Xie, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

September 2020

Jasmine Sawers’ piece “Mango Son Theen” was featured in Jellyfish Review.

Rajiv Mohabir is a recipient of the 2020 American Poets Prize.

Jasmine Sawers’ collection “The Weight of the Moon and Other Measurements” will be published by Rose Metal Press.

Monica Ong has two audio visual poems in A Velvet Giant.

K-Ming Chang is one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Recipients.

Hala Alyan’s poem “Spoiler” was featured in The New Yorker.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Wet Market” was featured in Literary Hub.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book World of Wonders was reviewed by The New York Times.

K-Ming Chang’s debut novel Bestiary was reviewed by Slant Magazine.

Chen Chen’s fiction piece “Summer” was featured in The Margins.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil was named a finalist for this year's Kirkus Prize.

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “Bill Pay” was featured as the poem of the week in Split This Rock.

August 2020

Helene Achanzar has three poems in the Summer & Fall 2020 issue of Poetry Northwest.

Matthew Salesses' book "Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshops" will be out in January 2021 via Catapult Books.

K-Ming Chang’s piece “Family: Orchid” was featured in Joyland.

Shelley Wong’s piece “How to Live in Southern California” was featured in the Kenyon Review.

Kimberly Alidio, Todd Kaneko, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil were featured in the Lantern Review’s “August APA Poetry Companion: Books to Celebrate the End of Summer”.

Marilyn Chin was interviewed by Sally Wen Mao for the Poetry Foundation.

Marilyn Chin was awarded the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation.

Joshua Nguyen’s manuscript “Come Clean” is a finalist for The Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press.

Eddie Kim’s poem “Telephone of the Wind” was featured in The Slowdown.

Jessica Yuan’s chapbook “Threshold Amnesia” was selected by Justin Phillip Reed as winner of the 2019 Yemassee Chapbook contest.

Aria Aber and Chen Chen were chosen as finalists for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Swati Khurana’s piece “A Recipe for Flash Fiction” was featured on The Margins.

Matthew Salesses’ book “Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear” was published by Little a.

Shruti Swamy’s book “A House Is a Body: Stories” was published by Algonquin Books.

Danielle Batalion Ola’s piece “Ask Me Anything” was featured in the Summer 2020 issue of Carve Magazine.

Kenji Liu’s hybrid essay poem “Zuihitsu: Teaching Aiiieeeee! as Intersectional Ecological Archive” was featured in Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies.

July 2020

Sejal Shah’s reading list “9 Books Where Women of Color Tell Their Own Stories About Mental Health” was featured in Electric Lit.

Paisley Rekdal’s poem “Happiness” was featured in The Slowdown.

Joshua Nguyen’s poem “In Praise of My Threaded Eyebrows” was featured in The Slowdown.

Monica Ong’s visual poem “Blood Moon Woman” was featured in Petrichor: A Journal of Text + Image.

Shankar Narayan won the River Heron Review Poetry Prize for 2020.

Jane Wong’s poem “This Is What Survival Looks Like” was featured in the Yale Review.

Monica Ong’s audio poem “Yellow Insomnia” was published at Tricycle: A Buddhist Review.

K-Ming Chang and Shruti Swamy were featured in Publisher’s Weekly’s “Writers to Watch Fall 2020.”

Mai Nardone’s short story was featured in issue 60 of McSweeney’s Quarterly.

K-Ming Chang, t. tran le, Mai Nardone, Jane Wong, and Seema Yasmin were all featured in issue 14 of Apogee Journal.

Jess Rizkallah’s pieces “for the kids i keep seeing in my dreams” and “in my dreams i read arabic fast” were featured in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

Dan Lau’s poem “Molt” was featured in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

Rick Barot’s poem “The Field” was featured in The New Yorker.

K-Ming Chang’s short story “Asymmetry” was featured in Jellyfish Review.

Matthew Salesses has a column on Asian American Literature featured in Catapult.

June 2020

Joseph Legaspi’s piece “Shelter-in-Place: Forty-Eight Fragments, Episodes, Anecdotes, Fodders, and Vignettes” was featured in World Literature Today.

Craig Santos Perez’s poem “Contact Tracing” was the featured in Orion Magazine.

Jasmine Sawers story “All Your Fragile History” placed second in the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction.

Jeevan Anthony Narney was featured in the Summer 2020 issue of The Georgia Review.

Aria Aber was interviewed by The Rumpus about literary community, the role of the divine in poetry, and the way in which solitude shapes an artist’s life.

Beth Nguyen, Eugene Gloria, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Jai Dulani were all featured in Waxwing Magazine.

Troy Osaki read several poems from his working chapbook “Archipelago” at the 2020 Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival.

Sun Yung Shin’s poem “A History of Domestication” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Craig Santos Perez’s poem “ars pasifika” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Leah Silvieus & Lee Herrick’s anthology “The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit” was released from Orison Books.

Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Riding In a Bus On the Way to Prison” was published in the Adroit Journal.

May 2020

Franny Choi’s poem “Hangul Abecedarian” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Monica Ong’s poem “Jupiter's Family of Comets” was published in the Blurred Genres Contest at Redivider Journal.

Marilyn Chin’s poem “Sage #3” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Paisley Rekdal’s poem “有 識: Have Knowledge” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Kimberly Alidio’s book : once teeth bones coral : to be published in Belladonna* in August, 2020.

Rana Tahir’s book Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Noor Inayat Khan was published by Choose Your Own Adventure.

Seema Yasmin’s illustrated book Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure was published by Harper Collins.

Christine Hou’s poem “Playground” was published in Poetry Northwest.

April 2020

Karissa Chen’s piece “How Quickly an Unfounded Fear Can Become Reasonable Caution” was published in The Atlantic.

Wo Chan was selected as a recipient of a 2020 Undocupoets Fellowship.

J Mae Barizo’s essay “Foraging Felt Like a Fad From the Past. Turns Out It Was a Reality Check I Didn’t Know I Needed.” was published in Esquire.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “School Supplies” was featured in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.

Chen Chen, Jenny Xie, and Monica Youn were published in the Spring 2020 issue of Ploughshares.

Craig Santos Perez was selected a recipient of the 2020 Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship.

K-Ming Chang published two micro-stories, “Guoguo” and “Half-Moon Bay,” in The Offing.

Jay Deshpande’s poem “Kiwi” was published in The New Republic.

Sejal Shah interviewed Cathy Park Hong in Guernica Magazine on her book of essays, Minor Feelings.

Rachelle Cruz’s essay “Reaching Through the Screen: The Reality for Adjunct Professors During COVID-19” was published in Poets & Writers.

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “13th Anniversary” was published in Lantern Review.

Marilyn Chin’s “Urban Love Poem” was featured in the first episode of Poetry in America Season 2.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Nature Morte” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “How to Write a Novel When Everyone You Love Might Be Losing it” was published in Literary Hub.

Jenny Boully, Philip Metres, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Sigrid Nunez were selected as recipients 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Sayuri Ayer’s poem “Claiming Honey” was selected as the runner up to Columbia Journal’s Womxn’s History Month Special Issue.

George Abraham published their poetry collection, Birthright, with Button Poetry.

Noah Arhm Choi published their poetry collection, Cut to Bloom, with Write Bloody Publishing.

Kenji C. Liu’s poem “When I cough during the pandemic” was featured in The Rumpus.

Sally Wen Mao, Sun Yung Shin, and Ocean Vuong were featured in the April 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.

March 2020

E.J. Koh’s poem “Happy” was featured in The Stranger.

Jennifer Chang’s poem “Obedience, or the Lying Tale” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

Alison Roh and Fatimah Asghar were featured in a zine by the Asian American Feminist Collective, titled “Care in the Time of the Coronavirus.”

Chen Chen published 5 poems, “A Queer Translates Rilke,” “Self-Portrait as a Wild Extrovert,” “Every Poem Is My Most Asian Poem,” “My boyfriend & I have a crush,” and “A Queer Translates Himself,” in Hobart.

Aria Aber was selected as a winner of a 2020 Whiting Award.

Monica Sok’s poem “ABC for Refugees” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

T Kira Madden’s memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls will be made into a feature adaptation directed by Frankie Shaw.

Amy Meng published an essay in Buzzfeed News on disabilities and the COVID-19 response.

Rohan Chhetri was interviewed by New England Review on two poems, “Indian Railway Canticle” and “Bordersong.” 

Pik-Shuen Fung’s book Ghost Forest will be published by One Word/Random House.

Franny Choi, T Kira Madden, & Ocean Vuong were selected as finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards.

Hazem Fahmy’s poem “Ars (عرص) Poetica” was published in The Margins.

Jee Leong Koh’s poetry collection Connor & Seal was published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

Paul Tran’s poem “Galileo” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Chen Chen’s poem “I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

Jennifer Chang’s poem “My Own Private Patriarchy” was published in the March issue of Poetry Magazine.

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “In Defense of Small Towns” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

EJ Koh was intervied by Electric Lit on her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.

Craig Santos Perez’s poem “Good Fossil Fuels” was published in Tiger Moth Review.

February 2020

Danny Thanh Nguyen’s essay “After the Honeymoon Phase” was published in The Offing.

Monica Sok’s poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On was published by Copper Canyon Press.

EJ Koh was interviewed by The Rumpus on her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.

Muriel Leung’s poetry collection Imagine Us, The Swarm was selected as the winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, and will be published in Spring 2021.

Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection Oculus was selected as a finalist of the LA Times Book Prize in poetry.

Monica Sok’s poem “Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Nay Saysourinho’s essay “The Many Disappearances in Run Me to Earth” was published in Ploughshares.

George Abraham read their poem, “Yikes Poetica,” on Button Poetry.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Questions while searching for birds with my half-white sons, aged six and nine, National Audubon Bird Count Day, Oxford, MS” was published in Greenpeace.

Don Mee Choi’s poem “The Orphans” and Kimiko Hahn’s poem “Three Charms From Foreign Bodies” were published in the LA Review of Books Quarterly.

Janice Lobo Sapigao was appointed as the 2020-21 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.

Joshua Nguyen’s poems “In Praise of My Threaded Eyebows,” “Add Cocunut Water,” and “You were born in Vietnam, I don’t see any of that in your food” were published in The Offing.

EJ Koh was featured in The Japan Times for her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.

Melody Gee’s essay “Language & Conversion” was published in Commonweal Magazine.

January 2020

Terisa Siagatonu’s poem “Deserving” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Ricco Siasoco was interviewed by Asian American Writer’s Workshop on his poetry collection, The Foley Artist.

Arthur Sze was interviewed by Kenji Liu in Tricycle Magazine on his collection, Sight Lines.

Jane Wong’s poem “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” was featured as part of The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica series.

Ricco Siasoco was interviewed by The Interlocutor Magazine on his poetry collection, The Foley Artist.

R.A. Villanueva’s poem “Fish Heads” was featured as part of The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica series.

Seema Yasmin’s poetry collection If God Was A Virus: The Ebola Poems will be published by Hay Market Books.

Monica Youn’s poem “Study of Two Figures (Agave/Pentheus)” was published in The Yale Review.

Aria Aber’s poems “First Snow,” “Nostos,” and “Hades” were published in The Yale Review.

Sandra Lim’s poems “Bent Lyre,” “The Stronger,” and “San Francisco” were published in The Yale Review.

Tiana Nobile’s poetry collection Cleave will be published by Hub City Press in Spring 2021.

Paul Tran’s poem “Copernicus” was published in The New Yorker.

Meng Jin’s novel Little Gods was published by Custom House Books.

Sandra Lim’s poem “Jean Rhys” was published in Poetry Magazine.

Wo Chan’s poem “june 8, the smiley barista remembers my name” was published in Poetry Magazine.

Philip Metre’s poems, “Three Books (A Simultaneity),” “Future Anterior,” and “Mixtape for My Twenties” were published in The American Poetry Review.

Viplav Saini’s essay, “The Balancing Acts of Vijay Seshadri,” was published in The American Poetry Review.

Craig Santos Perez published two poems, “ECL” and “The Zen of Spam,” in The Rumpus.

Franny Choi’s poem “Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon” was published in The New York Times as part of their Privacy Project.

K-Ming Chang’s short story “Auntland” was published in Vol.1 Brooklyn.

Ching-in Chen’s poem “South in Hundreds” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Kelly Tsai read two poems, “#SheThePeacebuilder” and “The Divided Soul,” for the organization Search for Common Ground.

December 2019

Melody Gee published an essay on Asian American memoirs in Commonweal Magazine.

Arthur Sze was interviewed in Michigan Quarterly Review on his collection, Sight Lines.

Craig Santos Perez’s poetry collection Habitat Threshold was published by Omnidawn.

Paisley Rekdal’s poem “Once” was featured in Poets.org’s Dear Poet 2020 series.

Oliver de la Paz was interviewed in The Rumpus on his collection, The Boy in the Labyrinth.

Kimiko Hahn’s poem “Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd”” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

K-Ming Chang’s essay “Consequences of Water” was published in The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop).

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “When I Am Six” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

E.J. Koh was featured in The Stranger for her forthcoming memoir The Magical Language of Others.

Muriel Leung wrote a review on Kenji Liu’s poetry collection Monsters I Have Been in The Georgia Review.

Franny Choi had four poems, including “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On” published in Poetry Magazine.

Jess Rizkallah’s poems “the prefix mar means sea” and “icarus puts on her make up” were published in The Rumpus.

November 2019

E.J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others will be published in 2020 by Tin House Press.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay “What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller” was published in LitHub.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poetry collection Shahr-E-Jaanan: The City of the Beloved will be published in 2020 by Tupelo Press.

Purvi Shah’s poem “Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Arthur Sze won a 2019 National Book Prize for his collection Sight Lines.

Hazem Fahmy’s poem “Abdel Halim Performs a Private Concert for My Mother” was selected as a finalist for Boston Review’s 2019 Poetry Contest.

Matthew Olzmann and Oliver de la Paz were published in Issue 16 of Four Way Review.

Kazim Ali’s essay “A Letter from an Indian in Exile” was published in The Punch Magazine.

George Abraham’s poem “Ekphrasis With Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed Halhul Vineyard” was featured in The Poetry Foundation’s PoetryNow series.

Sandra Lim’s poem “A Walk Round the Park” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Don Mee Choi’s translation of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry collection Autobiography of Death won the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.

Jane Wong’s poem ““After He Travels Through Ash, My Grandfather Speaks” was published in Lantern Review.

Melody S. Gee’s poem “And So More” was published in Lantern Review.

George Abraham’s poetry collection Birthright was published by Button Poetry.

Ansley Moon’s poetry collection Girl Country was a finalist for the Slope Editions Book Prize.

Cathy Linh Che, Sarah Gambito, and Joseph Legaspi were featured in an episode of the Poetry Foundation’s VS Podcast.

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet 42” was published in The Adroit Journal.

George Abraham published a playlist of poems in Verse Press.

October 2019

Sejal Shah’s book of essays, This is One Way to Dance, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in June 2020.

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “The Belladonna of Sadness” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Danielle Ola’s essay “The Idle Talk of Mothers and Daughters” was published in The Common.

Margaret Rhee’s essay “A New Slate of Films Serve as Love Letters to Korean American Mothers” was published in Bitch Media.

Matthew Olzmann’s poem “My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Alison Roh’s poem “My Father’s Hands / Las manos de mi padre” was featured as the Poem of the Week in Split This Rock.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Out of Research Into Reveries” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Paul Tran’s poems “The Cave,” “Endosymbiosis,” and “Incident Report” were published in Poetry Magazine.

Cathy Linh Che made an appearance on a Channel 5 local news coverage on the rise and power of poetry.

Jaswinder Bolina’s poem “Probable Poem for the Furious Infant” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Esther Lee’s forthcoming book Sacrificial Metal won the Minds on Fire Book Prize from Conduit Magazine.

Karen An-Hwei Lee’s poem “On Floriography” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

John Pineda’s poem “Delayed Harvest” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Leah Silvieus discussed her book Arabilis in an interview with Hypen Magazine.

Cathy Linh Che and Janine Joseph were named recipients of the 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

Kazumi Chin’s essay “Notes on the Post-Apocalypse” was published in Medium.

Franny Choi’s poem “How to Let Go of the World” was featured in PEN America’s Poetry Series.

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “The opposite of ocean is no ocean.” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

Tamiko Beyer had a conversation with Catapult on her short story, “Last Days.”

September 2019

Jay Deshpande’s poems “In the Time of Discernment” and “December” were published in Hyperallergic.

Ocean Vuong was named a recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s forthcoming book Sings Like a Bird will be published by Counterpoint Press.

Paul Tran’s poem “Closure” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.

Arthur Sze’s collection Sight Lines was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Poetry.

Ocean Vuong’s debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Fiction.

Chen Chen published GESUNDHEIT!, a collaborative chapbook with Sam Herschel Wein, from Glass Poetry Press.

Jessica Abughattas’ forthcoming collection Split won the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize from University of Arkansas Press.

Sonia Mukherji’s “Dance Poem––Boat Song” was published in Kitaab.

Jennifer Chang wrote an essay on Wong May’s poem “In Memoriam” in Poetry Daily.

Sally Wen Mao discussed her new book Oculus in an episode of The Poetry Foundation’s podcast, Poetry off the Shelf.

Rajiv Mohabir’s forthcoming memoir Antiman was selected as the winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

Aria Aber’s “Ideology” was the Poetry Foundation’s featured poem on August 29th, 2019.

Shelley Wong’s forthcoming book As She Appears was selected as the winner of the 2019 YesYesBooks Pamet River Prize.

Purvi Shah published 2 poems in Ms. Magazine, along with an interview discussing feminist poetry.

August 2019

Ching-In Chen’s poem “Lantern Letter: A Zuihitsu” was featured in Split This Rock.

Mg Roberts’ “Cylanders II” was the Poetry Foundation’s featured poem on August 29th, 2019.

Monica Sok was named a finalist of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

Franny Choi was selected as a winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

Noah Arhm Choi won the 2019 Writes Bloody Publishing Contest and will be publishing a collection of poems in 2020.

Franny Choi was interviewed by Hyphen Magazine on the A Day in the Queer Life of Asian Pacific America digital exhibition.

K-Ming Chang’s personal essay “Mazu” was featured in No Tokens.

Craig Santos Perez’s “A Whole Foods in Hawai‘i” was the Poetry Foundation’s featured poem on August 21st, 2019.

Tamiko Beyer was featured in a roundtable interview among the writers featured in the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019’ anthology.

Aria Aber’s “Can You Describe Your Years in Prison” was Poetry Daily’s featured poem on August 18th, 2019.

Ansley Moon was named Poets.org’s Curriculum Consultant for Teach This Poem.

Chen Chen’s “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Possibilities” was Poets.org’s featured Teach This Poem.

Jess Rizkallah had a conversation with f(r)iction.

R. Zamora Linmark was interviewed by them. and us on his latest novel, The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart.

Shelley Wong did an interview with the Kenyon Review.

Diana Khoi Nguyen was featured in an episode of VS Podcast.

Aria Aber published 3 poems on The Rumpus.

Timothy Yu wrote a response to an essay by poet Bob Hicok for The New Republic.

Ricco Siasoco announced a debut short story collection, The Foley Artist.

Lit Hub recently published an article on the second biannual Asian American Literature Festival, featuring many of our fellows.

Ocean Vuong and Chen Chen recommended authors for an August reading list for Electric Literature, featuring work by Sarah Gambito and Franny Choi.

July 2019

J. Mae Barizo was just elected as President of our Board of Trustees.

Ocean Vuong was named the Asian/Pacific/American at NYU’s Artist-in-Residence for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Aria Aber was featured on a list of books to anticipate in the second half of 2019 on The Rumpus.

Jennifer Chang wrote an essay on Robert Hass’s “Meditation at Lagunitas” on Poetry Daily.

Jane Wong wrote a personal essay on offerings to the dead in the Common Magazine.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan published Starling Days.

Chen Chen published a lyric essay in Nat. Brut Magazine.

Kien Lam wrote an article for League of Legends’ E-Sports page.

Kenji C Liu was interviewed for Monsters I Have Been in the Chicago Review of Books.

Yanyi, Kazim Ali, Prageeta Sharma, and Cathy Linh Che’s poetry were featured in a folio of invocation poems that will be read aloud at the Poet’s Peace Breakfast at the 2019 Asian American Literature Festival.

Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir, Ching-In Chen, Arthur Sze, J Mae Barizo, Mai Der Vang, and Sarah Gambito were featured in the July-August Issue of Poetry Magazine.

Mai Nardone’s “Welcome Me to the Kingdom” will be published in Ploughshares Summer 2019 Issue.

Franny Choi, Kenji C. Liu, and Sally Wen Mao were featured in a 2019 Mid-Year Review of Poetry from the Adroit Journal.

Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was featured in The Guardian.

W. Todd Kaneko and Kazim Ali had poetry featured in the Cortland Review.

Shelley Wong’s “As She Appears” was featured in the Kenyon Review.

Craig Santos Perez’s “Teething Borders” was featured in the Southeast Review.

June 2019

Chen Chen’s released Issue 3 of the poetry journal underblong.

Asghar Fatimah and Safia Elhillo recommended 7 poetry collections by Muslim Writers for Electric Literature, featuring Hala Alyan The Twenty-Ninth Year.

Franny Choi was featured in the Writers Recommend column in Poets & Writers.

Purvi Shah published her second full-length poetry collection, Miracle Marks.

Fatimah Asghar, T Kira Madden, and Ocean Vuong’s works were featured in a list of 41 LGBTQ books in Oprah Magazine.

Joseph Legaspi’s prose poem “I’m coaxing the roach” was featured in Issue #124 of Red Fez.

William Pei Shih’s short story “Enlightenment” was featured in the Summer 2019 Issue of VQR.

Ocean Vuong discusses On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous on Late Night with Seth Myers.

Don Mee Choi won the Griffin Poetry Prize for her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s The Autobiography of Death!

Jean Chen Ho wrote an essay on her experience in Las Vegas during her MFA program for The Rumpus.

Craig Santos Perez co-edited an anthology of indigenous literature from Micronesia, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia.

Lindsay Choi won the Baltic Writing Residency in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jennifer S. Cheng helped contributed to A Map Is Only One Story, an anthology on immigration, family, and the meaning of home.

Duy Doan won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in the Bisexual Poetry category for We Play a Game.

Muriel Leung became a Sundress Publication fellow and resident.

Lillian Li was featured on the Washington Post and wrote an article for the Michigan Quarterly Review for the paperback release of her novel Number One Chinese Restaurant.

Ocean Vuong published his debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and was featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, NPR, and USA Today.

Jason Bayani was interviewed by Kubo.

Franny Choi had a conversation with Gala Mukomolova for the Poetry Foundation.

May 2019

Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “Chasm” was featured the featured Poetry Daily poem (5/31)!

Jane Wong wrote an essay on familial love and mosquitoes for Shenandoah Literary Magazine.

Jean Chen Ho published a short story titled “Doppelgängers” on Guernica.

W Todd Kaneko and Purvi Shah were featured in the Lantern Review Issue 7, No. 2.

Aria Aber’s poem “Afghan Funeral in Paris” was featured in The New Yorker.

Rachel Ronquillo Gray’s poem “Girl Gone Rogue” was featured in the Tahoma Literary Review’s Issue 14.

Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “Confessional” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

R.O. Kwon was featured in an article about her creative process with 4 other Korean American authors on Buzzfeed.

Bushra Rehman was interviewed on the so…poetry? podcast.

Alexander Chee, Monique Truong, and Sally Wen Mao were featured in an article by Electric Literature on the first Asian American author they read.

Franny Choi did an interview with The Paris Review for her collection Soft Science.

Lillian Li and Fatimah Asghar were featured in an APA Heritage Month Reading List curated by UC Berkeley Library.

Amy Lam wrote an essay on tattoos, diaspora, and Jeremy Lin for Tin House.

Nay Saysourhino wrote an essay on the Southeast Asian refugee crisis for the Kenyon Review.

Franny Choi was interviewed by The Adroit Journal about her poem “Turing Test.”

Fatimah Asghar’s “I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.

Melody S. Gee wrote an essay on motherhood and Chinese American identity for The Blood Orange Review.

Fatimah Asghar was featured in a poetry folio celebrating the start Ramadan curated by The Poetry Foundation.

Monique Truong, Ligaya Mishan, and Ocean Vuong were mentioned in an interview with Ruth Reichl “By the Book” interview for the New York Times.

April 2019

Mia Ayumi Malhotra and her collection Isako Isako won the 2018 Nautilus Gold Winner for Poetry.

Ocean Vuong and Chen Chen were featured on a list of 13 Books by Queer Poets for Buzzfeed News.

Cathy Linh Che published three new poems on The Offing.

Franny Choi, Fatimah Asghar, and Sally Wen Mao were featured in a list of 17 of the Best Poetry Books for National Poetry Month on The Oprah Magazine.

Jason Bayani was the featured writer for Poets & Writers “Writers Recommend” series.

Jason Bayani published his latest poetry collection Locus.

Franny Choi, Kenji C. Liu, and Fatimah Asghar were featured on a list of Queer Poetry Collections to read during National Poetry Month from Book Riot.

Sarah Gambito was featured in a list of three poets who find meaning, and material, in lived experience for her collection Loves You in The New York Times.

Lillian Li’s debut novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was reviewed on Shiny New Books.

Sarah Gambito’s collection Loves You was reviewed on Poets.org.

Franny Choi’s collection Soft Science was reviewed by The Arkansas International and Lambda Literary.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Sorrowed” was published in The Rumpus.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Fatimah Asghar, and Gina Apostol were featured on a PEN America reading list on diaspora and migration.

Sejal Shah’s article on Invisible Disability was featured in a Longreads reading list of essays/articles on Disability, Accommodations, and School.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra is a finalist in the Commonwealth Club’s 88th annual California Book Awards for her poetry collection Isako Isako.

Larissa Pham wrote a personal essay on bathrooms, “A Bathroom of One’s Own,” for The Paris Review.

Jenny Xie published two poems, “Asymmetry” and “Bare,” on The Rumpus.

Kenji C. Liu published his latest poetry collection, Monsters I Have Been.

Jason Bayani published his latest poetry collection, Locus.

Franny Choi published her latest poetry collection, Soft Science.

March 2019

Hieu Minh Nguyen received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.

J. Mae Barizo was interviewed by Poets House.

Abeeda Shahid Talukder was interviewed by and created a folio of poems for the Tupelo Quarterly.

Chen Chen was interviewed by The Broken Plate.

Sarah Gambito was featured on the Commonplace Podcast: Conversations with Poets (and Other People).

W. Todd Kaneko was interviewed by the Massachusetts Review.

Aria Aber had two poems published in the March/April 2019 Issue of the Kenyon Review.

Shamala Gallagher and Jason Bayani had poetry featured in the Lantern Review’s Issue 7.1.

T Kira Madden published her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls.

Hieu Minh Nguyen received a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University.

Fatimah Asghar, Duy Doan, and Hieu Minh Nguyen were all finalists for the Lambda Literary Award.

Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant was longlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Kien Lam’s “Silhouettes” was published by the Poetry Foundation.

February 2019

Sally Wen Mao was interviewed by Aline Dolinh for the Adroit Journal.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s collection Ghost Of was the winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Shelley Wong’s manuscript As She Appears was a finalist for the 2019 Alice James Awards.

Fatimah Asghar appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour to talk about Partition and her collection If They Come for Us.

Franny Choi debuted “Periodic,” her monthly column on the first day of her period for Palette Poetry.

Rajiv Mohabir and Craig Santos Perez had a Poet-to-poet interview for the Kenyon Review.

Margaret Rhee and Karen Tei Yamashita’s books won 2019 Best Book awards from the Association of Asian American Studies for Love, Robot and Letters to Memory (respectively).

Rajiv Mohabir published a critical essay on Anthurium about Sundar Popo and Chutney music as large as an expression of Indo-Caribbean identity.

Noah Arhm Choi was interviewed by the Massachusetts Review.

Sarah Kay’s poem “Jakarta, January” was featured on Poets.org as their Poem-a-day (2/11/19).

Sally Wen Mao wrote an article for NYLON on Anna May Wong, fashion, and Chinese American identity.

Jennifer Chang, Ocean Vuong, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poems were featured a folio of love poetry from the Poetry Foundation.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s collection Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems was reviewed on The Rumpus.

Sarah Gambito held a book launch her latest poetry collection, Loves You.

January 2019

Jenny Xie was nominated as a finalist for the Swansea International Dylan Thomas Prize for Eye Level.

George Abraham’s poem “Essay on Submission” was featured as Poets.org’s Poem-a-Day on Janurary 29th.

Angela So and Ching-in Chen were awarded Houston’s 2019 Support for Artists and Creative Individuals grants.

Jenny Xie was nominated as a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards in the PEN Open Book Award category for her poetry collection Eye Level.

Nicole Chung was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography category for All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir.

Sejal Shah wrote an essay, “Even If You Can’t See It: Invisible Disability and Neurodiversity,” for the Kenyon Review.

George Abraham released a poem—“elegy for Home in mirrored graves, ending with a collapse of wings”—on Scalawag.

Sarah Gambito’s collection Loves You: Poems was featured in Publishers Weekly.

Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the "“Autobiography” category.

Joseph Legaspi answered 10 questions for the the Massachusetts Review.

Chen Chen has two poems featured—”Spring” and “Winter”—in Winter issue of the Massachusetts Review.

Kien Lam published three new poems—”Reverse Howl,” “The Jungle Book,” and “Zuihitsu”—on The Rumpus.

George Abraham’s chapbook The Specimen’s Apology was reviewed Michigan Quarterly Review.

Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection Oculus was reviewed by The New Yorker.

Chen Chen was featured in Brandeis Magazine.

Zahir Janmohamed wrote an article for The Guardian on contemporary race relations between Arab and African American communities within Detroit.

Fatimah Asghar was interviewed for Poets & Writers.

Franny Choi’s Soft Science was featured in The Rumpus as a Rumpus Poetry Book Club upcoming selection.

Chen Chen was interviewed for Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Duy Doan, Amy Meng, and Jenny Xie’s books were reviewed in the Georgia Review.

December 2018

Bonnie Chau was interviewed for Pigeon Pages.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra was interviewed for Wildness Journal at Platypus Press.

Sigrid Nunez was profiled by The New York Times.

Diana Khoi Nguyen, Jenny Xie, and Fatimah Asghar were spotlighted in a review of debut          poets at Poets & Writers.

George Abraham’s essay “Imagining a Free Palestine” was featured at The Paris Review.

Jenny Xie’s Eye Level was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award.

Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays was nominated for the          PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Franny Choi’s Soft Science and Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale were named Top 10 Anticipated          Poetry Books for Spring 2019 by Publishers Weekly.

Shelley Wong was awarded the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Kundiman Fellowship.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic, Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Not Here, and Jenny Xie’s Eye Level          were named Best Reviewed Poetry Books of 2018 at Lit Hub.

Franny Choi’s poem “Introduction to Quantum Theory” was featured on PBS News Hour.

        Franny Choi was the featured poet for the week of December 3rd at Green Linden Press.

Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto was reviewed at The Boston Globe.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Go Home! and Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant were          selected as Top 10 Books of 2018 by Brazos Bookstore.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us, Hieu Minh Nguyen’s          Not Here, Tarfia Faizullah’s Registers of Illuminated Villages, Jennifer S. Cheng’s Moon: Letters,          Maps, Poems, Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Soham Patel’s to afar from afar, and Mia Ayumi          Malhotra’s Isako Isako were selected as Best Poetry Books of 2018 by Entropy Magazine.

Prageeta Sharma’s “My Poem About Last Sounds,” Jane Wong’s “Everything,” Michelle Lin’s          “I Have Lain in the Dirt and Known This Bed,” and Cathy Linh Che’s “Becoming Ghost”          were selected as Favorite Poems of 2018 by Entropy Magazine.

Victoria Chang, Oliver de la Paz, and Paisley Rekdal were selected as Poem-a-Day guest          editors for 2019 at Poets.org.

November 2018

Dan Hong’s short story “We Had to Leave” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Joyland          Magazine.

Gina Apostol’s new book Insurrecto was reviewed at NPR.

Rachelle Cruz was appointed an Inlandia Institute Literary Laureate for 2018-2020.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s debut collection Isako Isako was reviewed by Tamiko Beyer at Hyphen          Magazine.

Jenny Xie’s Eye Level was featured at PBS News Hour.

Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Lillian Li’s Number One          Chinese Restaurant, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend were named Best Books of 2018 by NPR          Books.

Bonnie Chau was interviewed on her debut short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood at          The Believer.

Franny Choi’s chapbook Death by Sex Machine was reviewed at Hyype.

Rajiv Mohabir’s nonfiction piece “Ghosts of Opelika, Ross Cemetery” was featured at The          Auburn Avenue.

Sigrid Nunez’s novel The Friend was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books          of 2018.

Alexander Chee’s memoir How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays was named one of          the Best Memoirs of 2018 by the New York Public Library.

Jenny Xie’s poetry collection Eye Level and Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poetry collection Not Here          were named some of the Best Poetry of 2018 by the New York Public Library.

Fatimah Asghar’s poetry collection If They Come For Us was named one of the Best Books of          2018 by the New York Public Library.

Lillian Li’s novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was featured on a Best of 2018 list at          RealSimple.

Sigrid Nunez won the National Book Award in Fiction for The Friend.

E. J. Koh’s poem “Jeju Island” was the November 16th Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.

George Abraham’s poem “Ars Poetica in Which Every Pronoun is a Free Palestine” was          featured on the Racist Sandwich Podcast.

Sally Wen Mao’s new poetry collection Oculus was selected as the book for The Rumpus’s          December Poetry Book Club.

Leah Silvieus’s new poetry collection Season of Dares was reviewed at EcoTheo Review.

Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend, all          2018 National Book Award Finalists, were featured at Vox.

Soham Patel's new poetry collection and winner of the 2017 Subito Prize, ever really hear it, is          now available.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Conversation I Seem to Have With Too Many          People,” Hyejung Kook’s poem “The Day Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Before the          Senate Judiciary Committee, I Teach My Daughter the Names of the Parts of Female          Anatomy,” George Abraham’s poem Errata with Divine Sacrifice, and Chen Chen’s poem “&          Then a Student Stands Up, Says, Are You Serious?,” were featured in the Poets Resist issue of          Glass: A Journal of Poetry.

Jenny Xie, National Book Award Finalist and author of Eye Level, was interviewed on          labor and art at Literary Hub.

Diana Khoi Nguyen, National Book Award Finalist and author of Ghost Of, was interviewed          on grief, her favorite show, and writing advice at Literary Hub.

Jane Wong’s poem “Everything” was featured in Poetry.

        Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “In the Animal Garden of My Body” was the          November 5th Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Tamiko Beyer on her new poetry collection,          Marianna’s Beauty Salon, at The Rumpus.

October 2018

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, was named one of          Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2018.

Rachelle Cruz’s poetry collection, God’s Will for Monsters, was selected as a winner of the 2018          American Book Award.

Catherine Flora Con was selected as the 2019 Writer-in-Residence at Porter Square Books in          Cambridge, MA.

C. Dale Young’s poem, “Transept,” was featured at Scoundrel Time.

Nay Saysourinho’s flash fiction, “Fish Paste,” was featured at Asian American Writers’          Workshop.

Shamala Gallagher’s short story, “Safe House,” was featured at Territory.

Eddie Kim’s poem, “Firefighters’ Visit Leads to Fire,” was selected as one of Narrative          Magazine’s Top Five Poems for 2017-2018.

Justin Rovillos Monson, mentee of Paisley Rekdal during Kundiman’s inaugural Mentorship          initiative, has been awarded a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship.

Janine Joseph reviewed Jose Antonio Vargas’s memoir, Dear America: Notes of an          Undocumented Citizen, for The Atlantic.

Kimiko Hahn was interviewed by Franny Choi and Danez Smith on their podcast, VS.

Sonia Mukherji’s poems, “Anthem” and “Afternoon Nap at the Rai Chaudhury House,” were          featured at J’AIPUR Journal.

Bonnie Chau was interviewed regarding her debut novel, All Roads Lead to Blood, at The          Offing.

Jane Wong interviewed Marilyn Chin regarding her new collection, A Portrait of the Self as          Nation, at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Fatimah Asghar’s debut poetry collection, If They Come For Us, was featured in a critical essay          at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Fatimah Asghar, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Jenny Xie, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Hieu Minh          Nguyen, Duy Doan, and Subhashini Kaligotla were featured on Lantern Review’s list of          “Four Diverse Books That Are Challenging American Poetry.”

W. Todd Kaneko’s poem, “Oh, Say Can You See,” was featured at Rise Up Review.

Helene Achanzar’s prose poem, “Tokyo to Davao City,” was featured at Oxford American.

Fatimah Asghar interviewed Jamila Woods regarding her new song, “Giovanni,” for Poetry          Foundation.

Sally Wen Mao’s poems, “Parthenogenesis,” “Magic Whitening Princess,” and “The          Guadalupe Slough,” were featured at The Southeast Review.

Joseph O. Legaspi’s poems, “In Media Res” and “Ókúrú,” were featured at American Literary          Review.

Sarah Gambito’s poem, “Grace,” was the October 12th Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.

Rajiv Mohabir’s essay, “E Train to Roosevelt Making All Local Stops in Queens,” was named a          notable essay in Best American Essays 2018.

Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend were          named as finalists for the 2018 National Book Award.

Tamiko Beyer’s article spotlighting fellows George Abraham, Fatimah Asghar, Jason Bayani,          F. Douglas Brown, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Ching-In Chen, Franny Choi, Duy Doan,          Will Nu’utupu Giles, Janine Joseph, Ansley Moon, Bushra Rehman, Sejal Shah, Sadia           Shepard, and Mai Der Vang was featured at Literary Hub.

Melissa R. Sipin’s essay, “Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How To Cook,” from          The New Filipino Kitchen, was featured at Literary Hub.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poem, “A Woman May Not Be a Safe Place,” from her collection Ghost          Of, was featured at Literary Hub.

Bonnie Chau’s debut novel, All Roads Lead to Blood, was featured at The Coil Magazine.

Jenny Xie’s poems, “Chinatown Diptych” and “Zazen,” from her collection Eye Level, were          featured at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder was the featured poet for October on A Dozen Nothing.

September 2018

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, was reviewed at          The Adroit Journal.

Paisley Rekdal won the 2018 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine for her poems “Quiver,” “Telling the Wasps,” and “The Olive Tree at Vouves.”

Sally Wen Mao, Leah Shlachter, Shankar Narayan, and Catherine Flora Con were featured on The Racist Sandwich Podcast’s “The Kundiman 2018 Series, Pt. 4.”

Franny Choi’s forthcoming collection, Soft Science, was featured at IthacaLit.

Bao Phi’s poem, “Adrift”, was the September 22nd Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.

Swati Khurana was featured in “Autumnal Equinox: Witches Share How They Celebrate” at Teen Vogue.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem, “The Gods of the Age”, was the September 21st Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.

Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of and Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us were featured on Poetry Magazine’s “Reading List: September 2018.”

Chen Chen was interviewed at Entropy Literary Magazine regarding his favorite meals.

Lillian Li was interviewed on Michigan Radio about her debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant.

Karissa Chen’s piece, “A Letter to My Younger Self As You Begin Your MFA,” was featured at Epiphany: A Literary Journal.

Michelle Peñaloza’s forthcoming collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize.

Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend were named to the longlist for the 2018 National Book Award.

Mark L. Keat’s video essay, “Surnames,” was featured at The Florida Review.

Rajiv Mohabir’s poems, “Dissecting the Tay Whale” and “Odontocetiphilia,” were featured at The Cincinnati Review.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s debut poetry collection, Isako Isako, was featured at KQED Arts.

Như Xuân Nguyễn’s chapbook, A System of Satellites, was selected as a winner of the 2018 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.

Cathy Linh Che's “Becoming Ghost” was featured as a Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.

Inez Tan published her debut short story collection, This Is Where I Won't Be Alone, with Epigram Books.

Bonnie Chau's debut novel, All Roads Lead to Blood, was included in Lit Hub's "15 Books You Should Read in September."

August 2018

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem, “Chang ‘E,” was featured at Poetry Daily.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, was featured at          Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Book Riot.

Dan Hong's short story "We Had to Leave" was published in Joyland. 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay published a conversation on Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Hieu Minh Nguyen and Paul Tran both received Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Hieu Minh Nguyen published "Still, Somehow" and "The Ranger" on Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins.

Tiana Nobile published "/’mīgrent/" in the New Republic.

Kien Lam published "Light Perception" in Hyperallergic.

Jess Rizkallah, Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi all published work in the Portable Boog Reader 11.

Joseph O. Legaspi's 'Kissing My Father' was featured as a Poem-A-Day by Poets.org.

Jordan Alam, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Ching-In Chen were included in Hyphen Magazine's "USTOO: A #METOO CONVERSATION WITH FIVE ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS."

Mia Ayumi Malhotra was included in Poets & Writers' Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin for her collection Isako, Isako.

Chen Chen won a 2017 Texas Book Award for Poetry for When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities.

Chen Chen was featured in an article from The Atlantic about the resurgence of poetry.

Rachelle Cruz's God's Plan for Monsters received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

E.J. Koh was interviewed by Poetry Northwest in relation to the release of her new poetry collection.

Tamiko Beyer wrote a review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic for The Georgia Review.

July 2018

Janine Joseph wrote a review of Jérôme Ruillier’s The Strange for The Atlantic.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra will be publishing a series of poems on The Yale Review, beginning with "Notes from the Birth Year: On Mind and Memory."

R.A. Villanueva's "Annus Mirabilis" was selected as a Poets.org Poem-a-Day on July 30th, 2018.

Yim Tan Wong's Night 6033 was selected as a finalist for the The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize.

Heather Nagami's "Easy Grammar" was published in the 48th issue of the Berkeley Poetry Review.

Hieu Minh Nguyen, Paul Tran, and Jenny Xie were announced as finalists in the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

Sun Yung Shin, Elaine Wang, Cathy Linh Che, Ching-In Chen, Kenji C. Liu, and Tiana Nobile published work as part of Unmargins' "Incantations" collection. 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fatimah Asghar, Hieu Minh Nguyen, & Kimiko Hahn were included in Bustle's "9 New Poetry Collections You Can Read On Your Lunch Break."

Lucy Tan, Gina Apostol, and Nicole Chung were all included in The Million's "Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2018 Book Preview."

Sally Wen Mao's new book of poetry, OCULUS, is now available for pre-order.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello interviewed Lillian Li on Electric Literature about Lillian's recently-published novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant.

Bonnie Chau's new collection of stories, All Roads Lead to Blood, is now available for pre-order.

최 Lindsay’s book Transverse was the recipient of an open call selection from Futurepoem.

Aria Aber's manuscript “Hard Damage” was the winner of the 2018 Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize.

NYSCA/NYFA has awarded fiction fellowships to Swati Khurana and Sejal Shah.

June 2018

Fatimah Asghar was featured in an interview in The Teal Mango about her upcoming book of poetry and her web series "Brown Girls"

Jon Pineda sat down for an interview by Timothy Moore in the Chicago Review of Books.

May 2018

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, received a starred          review at Publishers Weekly.

Jennifer S. Cheng was interviewed regarding hybrid writing, flash, and her writing process at          Black Warrior Review.

Ryan Lee Wong published a review of Mel Chin's new survey at the Queens Museum in Hyperallergic. 

Ryan Lee Wong was featured in an interview in A Blade of Grass about his work with Chinatown Art Brigade. 

Jean Ho published this personal essay in PANK Magazine. 

Jenny Xie received the Holmes National Poetry Prize award from Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil published this list of eleven new collections by Asian American poets in Poetry Society, with a special shoutout to Kundiman.

Michelle Lin's set of poems "I Have Lain in the Dirt and Known this Bed" was published in The Wanderer.

Duy Doan was featured in Hyphen Magazine for his poetry collection We Play a Game.

Rajiv Mohabir received honorable mention for The Cowherd's Son from the Eric Hoffer Awards in Poetry. 

Kien Lam's poem "Lunar Mansions" was published in the latest issue of the American Poetry Review. 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil was featured in India's OPEN Magazine and PBS NewsHour. She also sat down for a Tin House interview about her new poetry collection, Oceanic. 

Shankar Narayan was interviewed by Dujie Tahat for the April 2018 issue of Moss journal.

Hieu Minh Nguyen was featured in NBC Asian America's #RedefineAtoZ 2018 list. 

April 2018

Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay, “Writing Letters to Mao,” was featured at Catapult.

Jenny Xie's book, "Eye Level" was reviewed by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker.

Aria Aber and Lucy Tan were named incoming 2018-2019 Fellows at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing.

Jenny Xie spoke to Shondaland about her new book, "Eye Level." 

Cathy Linh Che was the featured Poet of the Week by Brooklyn Poets.

Chen Chen's  poem "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party," was featured on Poets.org's Poem-a-Day.

Janine Joseph's 2014 Poetry Prize winning book, "Driving without a License," won the da Vinci Eye award for superior cover art, presented by the Eric Hoffer Award.

Cinelle Barnes published an essay, "An Open Letter to My Dog: I Couldn't Have Written This Without You," in Literary Hub.

Amy Lam's interview with Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Haunted by Survival," was published with the Poetry Foundation.

Jennifer Chang's poem "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once" was published in the New Yorker  

Moeko Fujii published her essay "What “Isle of Dogs” Gets Right About Japan" in the New Yorker.

Angela So's essay, "The Inspiration of Houston's Youth Poetry Slam," was published in the Houston Chronicle.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil published her fourth poetry collection, "Oceanic" with Copper Canyon Press.

Chris Santiago and Hieu Minh Nguyen are both recipients of the 2018 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers.

R.A. Villanueva sat down for an interview with Oxford Poetry, and spoke about his work with Kundiman about creating an exchange with U.K. poets.

Monica Sok and Paul Tran are both winners of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest.

Jennifer Chang's second book, "Some Say the Lark" won the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award.

Matthew Salesses's essay, "The Body That's Too Asian and Too Sick for America" was published on Medium as a part of the "Unruly Body" series by Roxane Gay.

March 2018

Jennifer S. Cheng participated in a roundtable discussion with Shamala Gallagher, April          Freely, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and Addie Tsai about lyric essays and marginalized identity at          Essay Daily.

Duy Doan published his book of poems, "We Play a Game," a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. 

Jee Leong Koh was featured in Hyphen Magazine, "A Gift of Poems: An Interview with Jee Leong Koh."

Hieu Minh Nguyen's poem "Baptism" was featured in the New York Times.

Sarah Kay published her newest book, "All Our Wild Wonder" with Hachette Book Group.

Karissa Chen published her mini-collection of essays with Awst Press.

Karissa Chen, Wo Chan, Rajiv Mohabir, Kimiko Hahn, Gina Apostol, and Marilyn Chin were featured in the anthology, "Go Home!" published by the Asian American Writer's Workshop and Feminist Press.

Joseph O. Legaspi curated a special portfolio of Philippine-American Lit for World Literature Today, featuring R. Zamora Linmark, Jason Bayani, Eugene Gloria, Janine Joseph, Oliver de la Paz, Sabina Murray, and Jake Ricafrente.

February 2018

Karissa Chen's story "Blue Tears" was a featured exclusive in the Rumpus as an excerpt from the anthology "Go Home!" from the Feminist Press and the Asian American Writer's Workshop.

Chen Chen wrote four new poems in Winter Tangerine including a statement piece about his mentorship with our co-founder Joseph O. Legaspi.

Sigrid Nunez published her eighth book, "The Friend," with Riverhead Books. 

Matthew Salesses published "Against Page-Limits, Or: Does the Length Match the Reach?" and the part one of his essay series, "What is Craft and What Does It Do" with Pleiades Magazine.

Bao Phi and his book, "A Different Pond," was named Best Picture Book by the Asian/ Pacific American Librarians Association.

Shelley Wong had four poems published, "[the ocean will take us one day]"; "Pride Month"; "All Beyoncés & Lucy Lius––"; and "Sightlines", in the Kenyon Review's special issue Resistance, Change, Survival. 

January 2018

Sadia Shepard's short story "Foreign-Returned" was published in The New Yorker. 

Bao Phi's book "A Different Pond" won the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book published in the country.

Ocean Vuong's debut poetry collection "Night Sky With Exit Wounds" won the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Mai Der Vang and her book "Afterland" is a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award in recognition of a first book by a poet of genuine promise.

Paisley Rekdal's "Imaginary Vessels" and  Monica Youn's "Blackacre" are nominated for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in recognition of a book by a mid-career poet.

Cathy Linh Che had two poems, "In the dream of a little life" and "Ghost," published on Pinwheel.

Jordan Alam and Susanna Kwan published two pieces of fiction in TAYO Literary Magazine issue seven, and Michelle Lin, Jane Lin, Duy Doan, Shamala Gallagher, Suman Chhabra, Troy Osaki, Elizabeth Tran, and Ching-In Chen all had poetry published in the magazine too. 

December 2017

Rajiv Mohabir's The Cowherd's Son was praised in a review by Gulf Stream Magazine.  

Hieu Minh Nguyen was nominated by AAWW for a Pushcart Prize.

E.J. Koh was interviewed by W. Todd Kaneko for SmokeLong Quarterly.

Zahir Janmohamed was featured in an article on NBC Asian America about his podcast with Soleil Ho, "Racist Sandwich."

Kimberly Alidio, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ching-In Chen, Shamala Gallagher, Sarah Gambito, and Tiana Nobile were featured in "Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South" in Poetry Northwest.

W. Todd Kaneko's poem, "Where the Sky Meets the Earth," was featured as the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day.

Chen Chen was featured in Poets & Writers' article, "Ten Poets Who Will Change The World" and appeared on the cover of their January/February 2018 issue.

Bonnie Chau's piece, "Chinatown of my Dreams" was published by Joyland.

Kelly Tsai was featured in How Thinking Like An Entrepreneur Helped One Artist Build A Thriving Career in Forbes Magazine.

Monica Sok's piece "ABC for Refugees" is featured in the December issue of Poetry Magazine.

November 2017

Sejal Shah's piece "Women at Work (Letter to Myself at Twenty-Six)" was published by The Rumpus.

Margaret Rhee's book Love, Robot was published by The Operating System.

Bethany Carlson, Mark L. Keats, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut, and Leah Silvieus featured in Hyphen Magazine's November Adoptee Folio guest edited by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello. 

Mai Der Vang received a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry.

Janice Sapigao's second book, like a solid to a shadow, was published by TIL.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello was interviewed by VIDA.

Leah Silvieus's first book, Roughage, will be published by Sundress Publications in 2019.

Ching-In Chen's poem "Self Portrait: New City Republicant" was featured as the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day.

October 2017

Hieu Minh Nguyen's poem "Politics of an Elegy" was featured as Split This Rock's poem of the week.

Elysha Chang's article "David Cross, Charlyne Yi, and the Luxury of Forgetting" was published by GQ.

Bushra Rehman's story entitled "Corona Halal Meats" was published on AAWW.

Rajiv Mohabir published a piece for Poets & Writers' "Writers Recommend" section.

Melissa Sipin published an interview entitled: "Setting the Stories Free: M. Evelina Galang on Honoring Philippine 'Comfort Women'" for Bitch Media.

Rajiv Mohabir's poem "Why Whales Are Back In New York City" was featured as the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day.

Duy Doan was featured in the October Poetry Magazine newsletter.

Tamiko Beyer and Kimiko Hahn published their collaborative chapbook, Dovetail, through Slapering Hol Press.

Melissa Sipin's essay, "The Shape of My Mother’s Body" was featured in Prairie Schooner's Fall 2017 issue.  

September 2017

Rajiv Mohabir's piece, "The archive and the poet," was published by Jacket2.

E.J. Koh's book A Lesser Love was published by LSU Press.

Wo Chan was profiled by Qwear.

Zahir Janmohamed's piece "A Guide for Writing About Muslim Americans for The Struggling White Male Reporter Who Doesn’t Want Anyone to Know He Doesn’t Really Like Muslims" was published by McSweeney's.

Neil Aitken and Margaret Rhee placed first and second respectively in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's 2017 Elgin Awards for best chapbooks of speculative poetry.

Alison Park's piece "Widening the Immigration Frame for Authentic Solidarity" was published by The Center for Media Justice.

Paul Tran's poem "Chrome" was featured in The New Yorker.

Franny Choi's Against "Fire and Fury," a collection of responses to the ongoing conflict in North Korea, was featured in Hyphen Magazine. 

Chen Chen and Mai Der Vang were longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry.

Bonnie Chau won the inaugural 2040 Book Awards Contest.

Aria Aber was featured in the September 2017 Issue of Foundry.

Fatimah Asghar was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

Tiana Nobile won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. 

August 2017

Jenny Xie's "Naturalization" was featured on Poets.org's Poem-a-Day.

Margaret Rhee's essay "Returning to My Father's Koreatown" was published by On She Goes.

Leah Silvieus, Mg Roberts, Kathryn Hargett, Adeeba Shahid Talukder, and Angela Peñaredondo published work with Anomaly.

R.A. Villanueva and Bethany Carlson were featured in Wildness.

R.A. Villanueva headlined the 2017 Divedapper Poetry Carnival.

Fatimah Asghar, Sally Wen Mao, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Jenny Xie were finalists of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

July 2017

Rajiv Mohabir's "Outcry" was chosen as Split This Rock's "Poem of the Week."

Shamala Gallagher's poem "How They Speak of the Fields" was featured on Poetry Daily. 

Jon Pineda has a forthcoming novel, "Let's No One Get Hurt: A Novel," set for 2018.

Bonnie Chau published her essay, "Stevie Versus the Negative Space," with The Offing.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello's poem, "Many-Faced Poem," was featured in The New York Times.

Fatimah Asghar's "Brown Girls" has been nominated for an Emmy, pre-HBO debut.

E.J. Koh's poem, "Confessions," was featured on Verse Daily.

Adeeba Shahid Talukder's manuscript was chosen as the 2017 Kundiman Poetry Prize winner.

Karissa Chen published an essay with Longreads, "My Grandfather's Fateful Goodbye, Reimagined."

Neil Aitken did an interview with AWP following up on his series of posts with De-canon: A Visibility Project.

June 2017

Gowri K and Fatimah Asghar made Split This Rock: The Quarry's top ten most viewed poems of 2016.

Bao Phi's book Thousand Star Hotel is going to be published with Coffee House Press.

Lawrence Minh-Bui Davis, Tarfia Faizullah, and Timothy Yu guest edited Poetry Magazine's July/August 2017 double issue, which is the largest issue to date.

Melissa Sipin published an essay with Salon, “Filipineza” doesn’t mean “servant”: Notes of witness from an immigrant daughter."

Jennifer S. Cheng was chosen as a 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize Winner for her collection, Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems.

Tiana Nobile published her first poetry chapbook, The Spirit of the Staircase.

Margaret Rhee published her first book of poetry Love, Robot.

Jane Wong and Sally Wen Mao published an interview that was featured in Asian American Writers' Workshop's Margins.

Janine Joseph, Ocean Vuong, and Porochista Khakpour were featured on Bustle's list of "11 Immigrant Authors Who Are Transforming Literature."

Fatimah Asghar secured a development deal with HBO for a series based on her web series "Brown Girls."

May 2017

Fatimah Asghar, Mai Der Vang, and Ocean Vuong were featured in NBC Asian America's #RedefineAtoZ series.

Tiana Nobile published an article in Poets & Writers featuring Ching-In Chen, Kimberly Alidio, and Vidhu Aggarwal. 

Monica Sok won the Kundiman / Walker Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center. Michelle C. Brown, Jennifer Cheng, Monica Ong, Nghiem Tran, Paul Tran and Wo Chan were also awarded tuition fellowships.

Kenji C. Liu and Angela Peñaredondo guest edited the APA issue of Poemeleon.  Vidhu Aggarwal, Suman Chhabra, Chen Chen, Ching-In Chen, W. Todd Kaneko,  Michelle Lin, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Rajiv Mohabir, Mg Roberts, Brynn Saito, Melissa Sipin, and Timothy Yu were included in the issue.

Ansley Moon was named a 2017 Dickinson House fellow. 

Sejal Shah was named a 2017 Peter Taylor fellow. 

Mai Der Vang's "Afterland" was reviewed in the New Yorker.

Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds was released in the UK. 

Ocean Vuong's "A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read" was published in the New Yorker.

Chen Chen was interviewed in Fjords Review. 

Chen Chen's "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential" was the poem of the day for 5/16 at Verse Daily. 

Ocean Vuong was featured on the London Review Bookshop podcast. 

2015 Kundiman Poetry Prize winner Rajiv Mohabir's The Cowherd's Son was published. 

Jane Wong won a Pushcart award for "When You Died" in Foundry Journal.

Ryan Lee Wong was interviewed in Teen Vogue.

"A Poem" by Mg Roberts was published in Apogee Journal.

Shruti Swamy has won a 2017 O. Henry Award for her short story "Night Garden."

Monica Sok, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Mai Der Vang were included in NBC Asian America's "‘Groundbreaking’ Asian-American Poets to Read With Immigrant, Refugee Roots."

April 2017

Work from fellows Chen Chen and Muriel Leung was featured in issue 8 of Nat. Brut, "Queer/Trans/Asian."

Mai Der Vang was featured on PBS Newshour.

Rajiv Mohabir's The Cowherd's Son was given a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. 

Ocean Vuong was mentioned in the New York Times.

Fatimah Asghar's "If They Should Come for Us" was featured in the New York Times.

Shruti Swamy received a Steinbeck Fellowship.

Kundiman helped curate an Asian-American poem sampler for the Poetry Foundation.

Timothy Yu's poem "Moon" was featured in the New York Times. 

Paul Tran has been named the 2017 Miami Writers Institute Kundiman Fellow.

March 2017

"If They Should Come for Us" by Fatimah Asghar was featured by the Poetry Foundation. 

"Icicle Creek" by E.J. Koh was the Boston Review's Poem of the Week.

Work by Jai Arun Ravine was featured in the BAX installation Shadow Play. 

 Jennifer S. Cheng's multi-modal essay “Toward a Poetics of Phantom Limb, or All the Shadows that Carry Us” was published in Territory. A review is also available on Wildness.

Duy Doan has won the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.

Hossannah Asuncion's "26 Monroe Street, Buzzer 6" was featured in the Poetry Society of America's "In their Own Words" series. 

Janine Joseph is a finalist for the Oklahoma book award.

Jai Ravine, Ocean Vuong, and Rajiv Mohabir have been named Lambda Literary Awards finalists.

Amy Meng won the Pleiades Press Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry for her manuscript "BRIDLED" which will be published in spring 2018.

"Transmigration" by Mai Der Vang was featured in Milkweed's Poetry and Migration series. 

The first episode of Neil Aitken's "The Lit Fantastic" podcast is out, featuring Eugenia Leigh.

A poem and interview with Andre Yang  was featured in Mai Der Vang's series on Hmong American poets.

The Boston Globe published an article on Duy Doan, winner of the Yale younger poets prize. 

PBS Newshour featured Tamiko Beyer and Hyejung Kook in an article about the Migration Poetry Postcard Project. 

NBC Asian America interviewed and featured work by Cathy Linh Che, Timothy Yu, Soham Patel, Tamiko Beyer,  and Sarah Gambito in their article "‘Because We Come From Everything’ Explores Migration Through Postcards and Poetry."

February 2017

Three flash fiction pieces by Melissa Sipin have been published in Black Warrior Review's newest issue feature: Reclamation.

Purvi Shah was published in Proximity Magazine. 

Fatimah Asghar's webseries "Brown Girls" premiered. 

Two poems by Chen Chen were published in the Mondegreen. 

Mia Ayumi Malhotra won the 2017 Alice James Award for her manuscript "When I See You Again, It Will Be with a Different Face."

Purvi Shah was named a finalist for the Alice James Prize. 

"Theory and Other Poems" by Amy Meng was published in Narrative Magazine. 

"Anemal Uter Meck" by Mg Roberts is now available from SPD Books. 

Three flash fiction pieces by Melissa Sipin have been published in Black Warrior Review's newest issue feature: Reclamation.  

Three poems by E.J. Koh were published in the Margins. 

Poems by Fatimah Asghar and Hieu Minh Nguyen were published in the March/April 2017 issue of BOAAT. 

January 2017

Sarah Gambito, Joseph O. Legaspi, and Oliver De La Paz were interviewed in Ploughshares.

Sejal Shah was one of the annotators of the "Hacked DSMV" and contributed the short story "Watch Over Me; Turn a Blind Eye" to Open in Emergency: the  Asian American Literary Review's Special Issue on Mental Health.

Janine Joseph has been shortlisted for the Suk Award.

A poem by Rajiv Mohabir was featured in the Rumpus Inaugural Poems.

Kelly Tsai has an animated poem "To Find Your Place in the World" for AmeriCorps. 

Rajiv Mohabir's poem "Kekaimalu: Wholphin" was published in Summit Magazine. 

Sally Wen Mao's poem "Resurrection" was published on PoetsORG.

Laura Jew's poem "This Is How We Live" was published in Apogee Journal.

December 2016

Hieu Minh Nguyen & Monica Sok were awarded NEA Literature Fellowships. 

TAYO Literary Magazine Issue 6, edited by Kundiman fellows Melissa Sipin, Bel Poblador and Janice Sapigao is available for purchase.

Congratulations to Margaret Rhee on the publication of her collection “Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love.”

Leah Shlachter’s poem “To Make a Dish Hawaiian Just Add Pineapple” won the Hawaii Review's poetry contest.

Hieu Minh Nguyen and Muriel Leung interviewed by Adroit Journal.

Ryan Lee Wong's essay "Six and a Half Ways to Disappear" was published on The Offing.

Gowri Koneswaran's "How to Enjoy Your Vacation" is a Split This Rock poem of the week.

Karissa Chen's reflection on finding her identity in Taiwan is now up on Research & Reflections, a journal on Fulbright Taiwan experiences.

Check out Bustle's 15 Most Anticipated Collections of 2017, which includes books by Chen    Chen, Bao Phi, and Mai Der Vang!

Michelle Peñaloza has two poems, now up at The Margins.

Mai Der Vang curates a folio on at the Academy of American Poets' site called Writing from the Absence: Voices of Hmong American Poets.

Neil Aitken's second book Babbage's Dream is now available for pre-order.

November 2016

Janice Lobo Sapigao published her first book, "microchips for millions”

Shelley Wong’s “To Yellow” published in Sixth Finch

Feliz Lucia Molina is now the Poetry Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her poem “Fleur de Lis Hot Desert Springs” was published in Night Papers. 

October 2016

Sejal Shah's manuscript How to Make Your Mother Cry was named a finalist for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Essay Collection Prize and the Kore Press Memoir-in-Essays Prize

Hossannah Asunción published her first book, “Object Permanence.”

September 2016

Sejal Shah's “Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps” was published in Brevity's special issue on Race, Racism, and Racialization.

August 2016

Bushra Rehman is this year's VSC/Kundiman Fellowship recipient; Cynthia Gunadi, Swati Khurana, Sadia Shepard, and Hieu Minh Nguyen also received full fellowships. 

Shruti Swamy published "The Siege" in the Boston Review and "The Laughter Artist" in the Kenyon Review Online.

Melissa R. Sipin has a short story over at the Margins. 

Amy Lam talks writing about race, family, & food on the Racist Sandwich podcast. 

Jean Ho writes on diversity in marketing books for writers of color on NPR's Code Switch. 

Rachelle Cruz won the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize from Inlandia Institute, and her poetry manuscript Gods Will for Monsters will be published by Inlandia Institute.

EJ Koh won the 2016 Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry for her poetry collection A Lesser Love.

W. Todd Kaneko, with Amorak Huey, just signed a publishing contract with Bloomsbury Academic to write a textbook about writing poetry.

Shruti Swamy published two great reads: "The Siege" in the Boston Review and "The Laughter Artist" in the Kenyon Review Online

Melissa R. Sipin reflects on her lola in "Pacita" over at the Margins. 

Bushra Rehman is this year's VSC/Kundiman Fellowship recipient; Cynthia Gunadi, Swati Khurana, Sadia Shepard, and Hieu Minh Nguyen also received full fellowships. 

July 2016

Jane Wong won the American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for her poem "I Put on My Fur Coat," which will be published in the September/October issue of APR. 

Nghiem Tran was interviewed in the Indiana Review after winning the 2015 1/2 K Prize. 

Feliz Lucia Molina's "Pauline" is up at SFMOMA's Open Space. 

Jennifer S. Cheng has a lyric essay on craft online at Black Warrior Review.  She is writing for Jacket2 about “Other Ways of Seeing: The Poetics & Politics of Refraction,” two of her “Letters to Mao” were published in New American Writing, and three image-text poems “How to Build an American Home,” from the same forthcoming book, were published in Columbia Poetry Review (print only).

June 2016

“Married” by Sejal Shah was published in Waxwing Literary Journal.

Patrick Rosal's "At the Tribunals" from Brooklyn Antediluvian is featured on Poetry Daily.

Rajiv Mohabir and William Alfred Nu'utupu Giles are featured in an article by NBC News. 

May 2016

Chen Chen, Muriel Leung, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Hieu Minh Nguyen have poems appear in The Adroit Journal.

Michelle Peñaloza was awarded an Artist Trust Fellowship. 

How to Make Your Mother Cry by Sejal Shah was selected as a finalist for The Journal 's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize.

"A Simple Composition" by Shruti Swamy originally published in Agni has won the O. Henry Prize.

Meng Jin wins the 2016/2017 David T. K. Wong Fellowship from University of East Anglia.

Jenny Xie wins the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize from Northwestern University Press.

Fellow Chris Santiago wins the 2016 Linquist Vennum Prize for his book Tula. 

The New York Times reviews Ocean Vuong's Night Sky With Exit Wound.

Los Angeles Times reviews Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph.

"The Spring Forecast" by Shelley Wong was selected for a Pushcart Prize. It was originally published in Crazyhorse.

Tricycle Magazine features "A Letter Home," our collaborative Kavad workshop. 

Bhanu Kapil introduces a visual and poetic collaboration between Vidhu Aggarwal and Bishakh Som in the Boston Review. 

Cento by Sarah Gambito was published at American Poetry Review.

April 2016

Hieu Minh Nguyen, selected for an API Fellowship, will be attending The Writers Institute at Miami Book Fair to study with Terrance Hayes.

Cathy Linh Che's "Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng" was a poem-a-day feature on poets.org. 

The latest Drunken Boat features fiction by Bonnie Chau, non-fiction by Henry Wei Leung, and poetry by Shelley Wong.

Two poems by Lo Kwa Mei-en in Timber Journal.

Sally Wen Mao is a 2016–17 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.

Tim Yu takes on race and poetry in an essay for The New Republic. 

Faculty member Rick Barot is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.

Meera Nair interviewed in P&W on our collaboration with Adhikaar, bringing workshops to working Nepali women.

Fellow Ocean Vuong featured in the New Yorker.

Mai Der Vang wins the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award for debut poetry collection.

Chen Chen wins the Poulin Poetry Prize from BOA Editions.

Kundiman advisory board and faculty member Kimiko Hahn is the new President of the Poetry Society of America.

March 2016

Joseph O. Legaspi's "Longyi, a Lyric" was published on Laundry. 

Kenji C. Liu has two poems on The Margins. 

R.A. Villanueva is featured on the Poem-a-Day series from Academy of American Poets.

Muriel Leung was interveiwed on PBS News Hour. 

Sejal Shah writes on Kenyon Review's blog, ruminating on work and writing. 

February 2016

Stories by Ploi Pirapokin and Shruti Swamy were published in the East Bay Review.

Brynn Saito was interviewed on VIDA.

Kenji C. Liu has a video poem "Search History," a trailer for his forthcoming collection, Map of an Onion. 

Fatimah Asghar and Hieu Minh Nguyen are featured in an article "20 Young Writers of Color Share Their Favorite Poems" on the Huffington Post. 

Ocean Vuong's poem "Of Thee I Sing" appears in Gulf Coast.

Bonnie Chau is featured in an interview about her forthcoming story "Monstrosity" on Timber Journal. 

Janine Joseph's poem "Circuitry" is featured as Poem-a-Day on Academy of American Poets. 

Fatimah Asghar is featured in an interview in the Prairie Schooner. 

Kenji C. Liu's poem "Search History" is featured in Vinyl. 

Amy Meng's poem "Inside-Out Joke" appears in Wreck Park Journal. 

Will Giles performs "Captain America" at the 2015 National Poetry Slam in Oakland, CA. 

Vidhu Aggarwal's The Trouble with Humpadori has been chosen as Small Press Distribution's "HANDPICKED" selection for the month of February 2016.

"Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health" was released, with contributions from multiple Kundiman fellows. 

January 2016

Andy Chen reviews Rick Barot's Chord on Hyphen Magazine. 

Amy Lam's podcast discusses "Lisa Lee On Erasure and Invisibility" on Bitch Media's Popaganda Episode: Writing About Race. 

Monica Sok's poem "The Woman Who Was Small, Not Because the World Expanded" is featured as Poem of the Week in Narrative Magazine. 

Fatimah Asghar and Ocean Vuong are featured in "These 9 Young Poets Are Actually Making the Genre Cool Again" in Teen Vogue. 

Lisa Lee's essay "Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop" is featured in VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. 

Jane Wong reviews four poetry collections in "The Singing Rituals" featured on West Branch Wired.  

Hieu Minh Nguyen's poems "White Boy Time Machine: Safety Tips" and "White Boy Time Machine: Test Run" are featured in Ninth Letter. 

Cathy Linh Che has won the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies for Best Book in Creative Writing: Poetry. 

Monica Sok's poems "Oh, Daughter" and "Song of an Orphaned Soldier, Clearing Land Mines" appear in TriQuarterly Review. Her essay On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma is featured in VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. 

Fatimah Asghar's "america" is the Poem of the Week on Split This Rock. Asghar is the first feature of The PEN Book Report.  

Bonnie Chau is interviewed by Melville House in "Ask a Bookseller: BookCourt with Bonnie Chau."

Vidhu Aggarwal's essay "I'm nothing, if not: An Anecdote of a Jar" in VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. 

Jennifer S. Cheng's House A was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of Omnidawn's 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. Soham Patel was named a finalist. 

Hyejung Kook's poem "Invention No. 7 in e minor" was featured on Verse Daily. 

Chen Chen's chapbook Set the Garden on Fire was reviewed in "Transitory Poetics: January 2016" on Entropy Magazine. 

Jane Wong received a Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship for her project Digital Interviews: The Poetics of Haunting in Asian American Poetry from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. 

Muriel Leung's poems "I Ghost You" and "Notes on Deviancy" are featured in Coconut Magazine. 

Jennifer S. Cheng has a lyric essay, “Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative” in Entropy Magazine. Four of her image-text poems “How to Build an American Home” appear in DIAGRAM.

Rajiv Mohabir's essay "An Actual (South) Asian American Speaks from the Ruins of Best American Poetry" appears on Jaggery. Mohabir's The Taxidermist's Cut has also been listed in Publisher's Weekly Spring 2016 Poetry Announcements. 

Fatimah Asghar's poems "Mother" and "Ways I Am Tired" appear in The Adroit Journal. 

Shamala Gallagher's poems "Evening, Drug, No Drug" and "Sung in the Street Dark" appear in Jellyfish Thirteen. 

Wo Chan's poems "Chopped: Four Sections" are featured on The Margins for Poetry Tuesday at Asian American Writer's Workshop. 

Tiana Nobile's poem "Driptorch" appears in the Winter 2015 Issue of Phantom. 

Among several contributors, fellows Sally Wen Mao and Margaret Rhee pick their favorite 2015 APIA reads for Hyphen Magazine. 

Ocean Vuong and Hieu Minh Nguyen are listed among the "32 Essential Asian-American Writers You Need To Be Reading" on BuzzFeed Books. 

December 2015

Hieu Minh Nguyen's poem "White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual" is featured on PBS Newshour. 

Rajiv Mohabir's nonfiction piece "Neech" is featured in Kweli Journal. 

Chen Chen interviews Swati Khurana in "Looking Back, Moving Ethically" on Iron Horse Literary Review. 

Chen Chen's poem "Second Thoughts on a Winter Afternoon" appears in The Massachusetts Review. 

Monica Sok's poem "Tuol Sleng" is a finalist for Narrative Magazine's 30 Below Contest.

Jane Wong's long poem "No Need for the Moon to Shine in It" is featured in The Margins on Poetry Tuesday. 

Melody Gee's essay "Luck Let Go" is featured in Barnstorm Literary Journal. 

Karissa Chen's essay "The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother" is featured on VIDA Women in Literary Arts. 

Chen Chen's poem "When I Grow Up, I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities" appears in Fjords Journal. Chen's poem "The Sea Is a Secret Net For the Bogeyman's Feelings" appears in Leopardskin & Limes. 

Vidhu Aggarwal's The Trouble with Humpadori has been released from the The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. 

Michelle Chan Brown's book Motherland, With Wolves has been released from Washington Writers' Publishing House. In January 2016, Brown will begin as Writer-in-Residence at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts. 

Feliz Lucia Molina has been awarded a month long residency at Can Serrat in Montserrat, Spain for July 2016. 

Tamiko Beyer's poem ""When control becomes untenable" was recently nominated for a Pushcart, which first appeared in Queering Nature issue of The Fourth River. A Hedgebrook alumna, she was recently interviewed for Women Authoring Change. 

EJ Koh's poem "Leaning On Heaven" was featured in Boxcar Poetry Review.

Shelley Wong's poem "The Spring Forecast" is in the Number 88, Fall 2015 issue of Crazyhorse. 

Poetry by Amy Meng and Ocean Vuong are in the Fall 2015 issue of Pleiades. 

Gracie Jin has been awarded the M Literary Residency in Shanghai. 

Jee Leong Koh's Steep Tea has been picked by UK's Financial Times as one of the best books of 2015. The Guardian featured Koh's "In His Other House" as Poem of the Week in September 2015. 

Suman Chhabra's chapbook Demons Off has been released from Meekling Press. 

Monica Sok has been awarded the 2016-2018 Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell University. 

Melissa R. Sipin's essay "Tangential Divagation: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter" is featured in VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. 

November 2015

Min K. Kang's debut poetry collection Diary of a K-Drama Villain, which won the Joanna Cargill Prize, has been released from Coconut Books. 

Paul Tran's poem "Testimony"and Ching-In Chen's poem "To fold confession:" are featured in Trans Issue 2015 of the The Offing. 

Rajiv Mohabir's three poems "Sacrament," "Return Migration," and "Gulf Bryde's Whale" are in the Fall 2015 issue of disquieting muses quarterly. 

Amy Lam interviews Fatimah Asghar on "Survival, Language, and Diaspora" on Bitch Media. 

Ploi Pirapokin has been accepted by the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center as a Visiting Writer. 

Muriel Leung's poems "This I Know About Red" and "Love Two Times" are featured on The Margins for Poetry Tuesday. 

Wo Chan has been awarded the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Kundiman Fellowship, which provides them with full tuition, room and board, and the opportunity to work with Kevin Young. 

Rajiv Mohabir's essay "Ancestral Hauntings: On Translating Lalbihari Sharma" is featured on PEN America, as well as his translations of Lalbihari Sharma's Holi Songs of Demerara. 

Sally Wen Mao's poems "Mutant Odalisque" and "Oculus" are featured on Four Way Review. 

Melissa R. Sipin's latest piece, "Scorched-Earth," is featured in this week's Guernica/PEN Flash Series. 

Mia Ayumi Malhotra's poems "Self-Portrait as Sparrows and Blood" and "Isako, Lost Things I" are published in Fogged Clarity. 

Ansley Moon and Monica Sok have been awarded poetry grants from the Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. 

Cathy Linh Che's "Pecha Kucha" is featured on Hyperallergic. 

Jason Bayani's essay on "Heaven is Just Another Country" by Jaime Jacinto is featured in Muzzle Magazine. 

Ploi Pirapokin is the winner of the 2016 Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation. She was also awarded a fully-funded residency at the Brush Creek Foundation and a fellowship to attend the Writers on Writing workshop at Tomales Bay. 

Monica Sok's poem "Cambodia" is in the November 2015 issue of The New Republic. 

October 2015

Kenji Liu's four poems "Deconstruction: Onion," "Letter from Hiroshima x65," "Despite the War," and "Nanji no tame / for You" as well as a translation by Yosuke Tanaka are featured on Action Yes. 

Margaret Rhee's three poems "tenderness," "Baby," and "On Flannery" are featured on The Feminist Wire.

Monica Sok's poem "Missing" is featured on The Offing. 

Shamala Gallagher's essay On Shining and Staring / On Ruin is featured on The Offing. 

Chen Chen's shares his ideas of fear in a short essay, included in 28 Days Later and Other Nightmares: On What Frightens Us, featured on the Kenyon Review Blog. Chen's poem "Please Take Off Your Shoes Before Entering Do Not Disturb" is also featured on Mass Poetry's program Poetry on the T. 

Vt Hung's "You Are Nothing But A Dog" was featured as Fiction Friday on The Margins.  

Sally Wen Mao's poem "Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles" was featured as the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. 

Melissa R. Sipin's short story "Dead Girl In The Bed" is featured in Day One. 
 

September 2015

Ocean Vuong is named winner of the 2015 Narrative Prize for his poems "No One Knows the Way to Heaven," "Trojan," and "Waterline." 

Shamala Gallagher's "Craft Essay" appears in Black Warrior Review. Her poem "Summer Eighteen" was featured in The Missouri Review. 

Jennifer S. Cheng has a lyric essay, “A Poetics of Iteration,” in Poor Claudia: 10 Sources. Her manuscript, House A, was a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Press Prize, and an excerpt is in Tarpaulin Sky magazine. Also, she has two poems "Anthropology of the Body [1.1]" and "Anthropology of the Body [1.2]"  at The Normal School Online. You can find her poem "Valella" on The Volta and her essay "What's In A Name" on the Yi-Fen Chou incident in Guernica.