Fellows Council
Established in 2018, Kundiman's Fellows Council provides an opportunity for passionate young professionals to build their leadership skills while giving back to the community through non-profit board service. Functioning under the guidance of our Board of Trustees and Development staff, the Fellows Council works to sustainably grow the Kundiman community in new and innovative ways.
SWATI KHURANA
Swati Khurana is a writer, artist, and Tarot reader. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Poets & Writers, Guernica, Apogee, and the Offing; in the anthologies Good Girls Marry Doctors (Aunt Lute) and Book of Curses (Asian American Literary Review); and has been a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. Her art has been shown at Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens Museums of Art, DUMBO Arts Festival (NYC); Chatterjee&Lal (Mumbai); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Costa Rica); ScalaMata Gallery (53rd Venice Biennial); and Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw). They are the recipient of fellowships from NYFA, Center for Fiction, Vermont Studio Center, Bronx Arts Council, Center for Book Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. In a past life and century, Swati was a founding member of SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective); she now serves on the Board of Directors of Kaya Press and edits Flash Fiction Editor at Asian American Writer's Workshop. Her pilot “My Grandmother Spoke to Tigers” will be staged by Fresh Lime Productions in Spring 2023. Swati likes quiet train cars, loud dance floors, bhel puri, being chaotic on Instagram @tarotbooksradio, and knowing what other people like.
Jen Lue
Jen Lue (President) is a Chinese American writer and has worked in the finance departments for David Zwirner Gallery and The Moth. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of awards and residencies from Asian American Writer's Workshop, Jerome Foundation and VONA/Voices, among others. She received her M.F.A. in memoir from Hunter College and her B.A. in Art History and English Writing from University of Pittsburgh. She currently lives in New York.
TARIQ LUTHUN
Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born, Dearborn-raised community organizer, data consultant, and Emmy Award-winning poet who invites you to join him in demanding an end to the siege on Gaza and the illegal military occupation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. Luthun — an artist who has earned a number of fellowships, residencies, and publications — calls for the right of return and land back for indigenous peoples globally. Luthun received his MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and currently serves as a board member of The Offing.
Photo by Liz Maney.
andie millares
andie millares is a poet, arts lover and administrator, and serial hobbyist from New Jersey. Currently based in Brooklyn with a grumpy cat, andie is a Kundiman Poetry Fellow and a founding member of the FilAm art collective, Dogeaters. She sings background vocals for her favorite band, Saint Mela. andie's work has been published or is forthcoming in Reductress, Eleven and A Half, and Foglifter.
Photo by Margarita Corporan.
Matthew Olzmann
Matthew Olzmann’s newest book, Constellation Route, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in January 2022. He’s the author of two prior collections of poems, Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Kresge Arts Foundation, and Kundiman, Olzmann's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prizes, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is a Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.