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 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.