Kenji Liu, a 2015 Kundi fellow, reads “How to be an Orange” and “Tree of Heaven.”
Kenji C. Liu (www.kenjiliu.com) is a 1.5-generation immigrant from New Jersey living in Southern
California. A Pushcart Prize nominee and first runner-up finalist for
the Poets & Writers 2013 California Writers Exchange Award, his
writing is in or forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, The
Collagist, Barrow Street Journal, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and
Action, The Baltimore Review, RHINO Poetry, Best American Poetry's blog, and many others. His poetry chapbook You Left Without Your Shoes
was nominated for a 2009 California Book Award. A three-time VONA alum
and recipient of a Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellowship, his
full-length poetry book is currently searching for a home. He is a
poetry editor emeritus of Kartika Review.