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.
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.