Congratulations to our fellows & Faculty!

Announcements are posted in the order they are received. Kundiman Fellows and Faculty are invited to send updates to christie@kundiman.org.

2014

Ocean Vuong will publish his first poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds with Copper Canyon Press.  A forthcoming poem of his will be featured in The New Yorker. He is also featured in the 2014 Best New Poets anthology, and is a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Prize from The Poetry Foundation.

 Kundiman fellow Michelle Penaloza's chapbook "Landscape/Heartbreak" was selected for publication, and she received a mention in Ploughshares' blog.

Kundiman fellow Sally Wen Mao was interviewed in Ezra Magazine. Cathy Linh Che, Kundiman Prize winner, is interviewed on Late Night Library, Words on a Wire, and on the National Critics Circle Awards.

R. A. Villanueva's first book of poems Reliquaria won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and appeared in Fall 2014.

The following Kundiman fellows have been awarded residencies, fellowships, and retreats: Wo Chan (Lambda Literary), Paul Tran (VONA), EJ Koh (MacDowell), Margaret Rhee (Napa Valley Writers’ Conference), Debbie Yee (Napa Valley Writers’ Conference), Tarfia Faizullah (Bread Loaf Fellow), Matthew Olzmann (Frost Place Faculty), Cathy Linh Che (Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant), Henry W. Leung (Fulbright to Hong Kong), and Michelle Chan Brown (Fulbright to Kazakhstan).

Janine Joseph’s book Driving Without a License has been selected as the 2014 Kundiman Prize winner. Read two of Janine’s poems here.

Monica Ong has won the 2014 Kore Press First Book Prize.

F. Douglas Brown's first poetry collection Zero to Three wins the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith.

Annie Won’s chapbook with Brenda Ijima, Once When a Building Block will be published by horseless press in 2014.