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Announcements are posted in the order they are received. Kundiman Fellows and Faculty are invited to send updates to christie@kundiman.org.
December 2018
Bonnie Chau was interviewed for Pigeon Pages.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra was interviewed for Wildness Journal at Platypus Press.
Sigrid Nunez was profiled by The New York Times.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, Jenny Xie, and Fatimah Asghar were spotlighted in a review of debut poets at Poets & Writers.
George Abraham’s essay “Imagining a Free Palestine” was featured at The Paris Review.
Jenny Xie’s Eye Level was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award.
Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays was nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Franny Choi’s Soft Science and Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale were named Top 10 Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2019 by Publishers Weekly.
Shelley Wong was awarded the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Kundiman Fellowship.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic, Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Not Here, and Jenny Xie’s Eye Level were named Best Reviewed Poetry Books of 2018 at Lit Hub.
Franny Choi’s poem “Introduction to Quantum Theory” was featured on PBS News Hour.
Franny Choi was the featured poet for the week of December 3rd at Green Linden Press.
Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto was reviewed at The Boston Globe.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Go Home! and Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant were selected as Top 10 Books of 2018 by Brazos Bookstore.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us, Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Not Here, Tarfia Faizullah’s Registers of Illuminated Villages, Jennifer S. Cheng’s Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems, Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Soham Patel’s to afar from afar, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s Isako Isako were selected as Best Poetry Books of 2018 by Entropy Magazine.
Prageeta Sharma’s “My Poem About Last Sounds,” Jane Wong’s “Everything,” Michelle Lin’s “I Have Lain in the Dirt and Known This Bed,” and Cathy Linh Che’s “Becoming Ghost” were selected as Favorite Poems of 2018 by Entropy Magazine.
Victoria Chang, Oliver de la Paz, and Paisley Rekdal were selected as Poem-a-Day guest editors for 2019 at Poets.org.
November 2018
Dan Hong’s short story “We Had to Leave” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Joyland Magazine.
Gina Apostol’s new book Insurrecto was reviewed at NPR.
Rachelle Cruz was appointed an Inlandia Institute Literary Laureate for 2018-2020.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s debut collection Isako Isako was reviewed by Tamiko Beyer at Hyphen Magazine.
Jenny Xie’s Eye Level was featured at PBS News Hour.
Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend were named Best Books of 2018 by NPR Books.
Bonnie Chau was interviewed on her debut short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood at The Believer.
Franny Choi’s chapbook Death by Sex Machine was reviewed at Hyype.
Rajiv Mohabir’s nonfiction piece “Ghosts of Opelika, Ross Cemetery” was featured at The Auburn Avenue.
Sigrid Nunez’s novel The Friend was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2018.
Alexander Chee’s memoir How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays was named one of the Best Memoirs of 2018 by the New York Public Library.
Jenny Xie’s poetry collection Eye Level and Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poetry collection Not Here were named some of the Best Poetry of 2018 by the New York Public Library.
Fatimah Asghar’s poetry collection If They Come For Us was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the New York Public Library.
Lillian Li’s novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was featured on a Best of 2018 list at RealSimple.
Sigrid Nunez won the National Book Award in Fiction for The Friend.
E. J. Koh’s poem “Jeju Island” was the November 16th Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.
George Abraham’s poem “Ars Poetica in Which Every Pronoun is a Free Palestine” was featured on the Racist Sandwich Podcast.
Sally Wen Mao’s new poetry collection Oculus was selected as the book for The Rumpus’s December Poetry Book Club.
Leah Silvieus’s new poetry collection Season of Dares was reviewed at EcoTheo Review.
Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend, all 2018 National Book Award Finalists, were featured at Vox.
Soham Patel's new poetry collection and winner of the 2017 Subito Prize, ever really hear it, is now available.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Conversation I Seem to Have With Too Many People,” Hyejung Kook’s poem “The Day Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I Teach My Daughter the Names of the Parts of Female Anatomy,” George Abraham’s poem Errata with Divine Sacrifice, and Chen Chen’s poem “& Then a Student Stands Up, Says, Are You Serious?,” were featured in the Poets Resist issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
Jenny Xie, National Book Award Finalist and author of Eye Level, was interviewed on labor and art at Literary Hub.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, National Book Award Finalist and author of Ghost Of, was interviewed on grief, her favorite show, and writing advice at Literary Hub.
Jane Wong’s poem “Everything” was featured in Poetry.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “In the Animal Garden of My Body” was the November 5th Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.
Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Tamiko Beyer on her new poetry collection, Marianna’s Beauty Salon, at The Rumpus.
October 2018
Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2018.
Rachelle Cruz’s poetry collection, God’s Will for Monsters, was selected as a winner of the 2018 American Book Award.
Catherine Flora Con was selected as the 2019 Writer-in-Residence at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA.
C. Dale Young’s poem, “Transept,” was featured at Scoundrel Time.
Nay Saysourinho’s flash fiction, “Fish Paste,” was featured at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Shamala Gallagher’s short story, “Safe House,” was featured at Territory.
Eddie Kim’s poem, “Firefighters’ Visit Leads to Fire,” was selected as one of Narrative Magazine’s Top Five Poems for 2017-2018.
Justin Rovillos Monson, mentee of Paisley Rekdal during Kundiman’s inaugural Mentorship initiative, has been awarded a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship.
Janine Joseph reviewed Jose Antonio Vargas’s memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, for The Atlantic.
Kimiko Hahn was interviewed by Franny Choi and Danez Smith on their podcast, VS.
Sonia Mukherji’s poems, “Anthem” and “Afternoon Nap at the Rai Chaudhury House,” were featured at J’AIPUR Journal.
Bonnie Chau was interviewed regarding her debut novel, All Roads Lead to Blood, at The Offing.
Jane Wong interviewed Marilyn Chin regarding her new collection, A Portrait of the Self as Nation, at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Fatimah Asghar’s debut poetry collection, If They Come For Us, was featured in a critical essay at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Fatimah Asghar, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Jenny Xie, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Duy Doan, and Subhashini Kaligotla were featured on Lantern Review’s list of “Four Diverse Books That Are Challenging American Poetry.”
W. Todd Kaneko’s poem, “Oh, Say Can You See,” was featured at Rise Up Review.
Helene Achanzar’s prose poem, “Tokyo to Davao City,” was featured at Oxford American.
Fatimah Asghar interviewed Jamila Woods regarding her new song, “Giovanni,” for Poetry Foundation.
Sally Wen Mao’s poems, “Parthenogenesis,” “Magic Whitening Princess,” and “The Guadalupe Slough,” were featured at The Southeast Review.
Joseph O. Legaspi’s poems, “In Media Res” and “Ókúrú,” were featured at American Literary Review.
Sarah Gambito’s poem, “Grace,” was the October 12th Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.
Rajiv Mohabir’s essay, “E Train to Roosevelt Making All Local Stops in Queens,” was named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2018.
Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend were named as finalists for the 2018 National Book Award.
Tamiko Beyer’s article spotlighting fellows George Abraham, Fatimah Asghar, Jason Bayani, F. Douglas Brown, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Ching-In Chen, Franny Choi, Duy Doan, Will Nu’utupu Giles, Janine Joseph, Ansley Moon, Bushra Rehman, Sejal Shah, Sadia Shepard, and Mai Der Vang was featured at Literary Hub.
Melissa R. Sipin’s essay, “Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How To Cook,” from The New Filipino Kitchen, was featured at Literary Hub.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poem, “A Woman May Not Be a Safe Place,” from her collection Ghost Of, was featured at Literary Hub.
Bonnie Chau’s debut novel, All Roads Lead to Blood, was featured at The Coil Magazine.
Jenny Xie’s poems, “Chinatown Diptych” and “Zazen,” from her collection Eye Level, were featured at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder was the featured poet for October on A Dozen Nothing.
September 2018
Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, was reviewed at The Adroit Journal.
Paisley Rekdal won the 2018 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine for her poems “Quiver,” “Telling the Wasps,” and “The Olive Tree at Vouves.”
Sally Wen Mao, Leah Shlachter, Shankar Narayan, and Catherine Flora Con were featured on The Racist Sandwich Podcast’s “The Kundiman 2018 Series, Pt. 4.”
Franny Choi’s forthcoming collection, Soft Science, was featured at IthacaLit.
Bao Phi’s poem, “Adrift”, was the September 22nd Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.
Swati Khurana was featured in “Autumnal Equinox: Witches Share How They Celebrate” at Teen Vogue.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem, “The Gods of the Age”, was the September 21st Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of and Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us were featured on Poetry Magazine’s “Reading List: September 2018.”
Chen Chen was interviewed at Entropy Literary Magazine regarding his favorite meals.
Lillian Li was interviewed on Michigan Radio about her debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant.
Karissa Chen’s piece, “A Letter to My Younger Self As You Begin Your MFA,” was featured at Epiphany: A Literary Journal.
Michelle Peñaloza’s forthcoming collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize.
Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend were named to the longlist for the 2018 National Book Award.
Mark L. Keat’s video essay, “Surnames,” was featured at The Florida Review.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poems, “Dissecting the Tay Whale” and “Odontocetiphilia,” were featured at The Cincinnati Review.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s debut poetry collection, Isako Isako, was featured at KQED Arts.
Như Xuân Nguyễn’s chapbook, A System of Satellites, was selected as a winner of the 2018 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
Cathy Linh Che's “Becoming Ghost” was featured as a Poem-A-Day at Poets.org.
Inez Tan published her debut short story collection, This Is Where I Won't Be Alone, with Epigram Books.
Bonnie Chau's debut novel, All Roads Lead to Blood, was included in Lit Hub's "15 Books You Should Read in September."
August 2018
Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem, “Chang ‘E,” was featured at Poetry Daily.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, was featured at Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Book Riot.
Dan Hong's short story "We Had to Leave" was published in Joyland.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay published a conversation on Asian American Writers' Workshop.
Hieu Minh Nguyen and Paul Tran both received Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.
Hieu Minh Nguyen published "Still, Somehow" and "The Ranger" on Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins.
Tiana Nobile published "/’mīgrent/" in the New Republic.
Kien Lam published "Light Perception" in Hyperallergic.
Jess Rizkallah, Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi all published work in the Portable Boog Reader 11.
Joseph O. Legaspi's 'Kissing My Father' was featured as a Poem-A-Day by Poets.org.
Jordan Alam, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Ching-In Chen were included in Hyphen Magazine's "USTOO: A #METOO CONVERSATION WITH FIVE ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS."
Mia Ayumi Malhotra was included in Poets & Writers' Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin for her collection Isako, Isako.
Chen Chen won a 2017 Texas Book Award for Poetry for When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities.
Chen Chen was featured in an article from The Atlantic about the resurgence of poetry.
Rachelle Cruz's God's Plan for Monsters received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
E.J. Koh was interviewed by Poetry Northwest in relation to the release of her new poetry collection.
Tamiko Beyer wrote a review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic for The Georgia Review.
July 2018
Janine Joseph wrote a review of Jérôme Ruillier’s The Strange for The Atlantic.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra will be publishing a series of poems on The Yale Review, beginning with "Notes from the Birth Year: On Mind and Memory."
R.A. Villanueva's "Annus Mirabilis" was selected as a Poets.org Poem-a-Day on July 30th, 2018.
Yim Tan Wong's Night 6033 was selected as a finalist for the The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize.
Heather Nagami's "Easy Grammar" was published in the 48th issue of the Berkeley Poetry Review.
Hieu Minh Nguyen, Paul Tran, and Jenny Xie were announced as finalists in the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
Sun Yung Shin, Elaine Wang, Cathy Linh Che, Ching-In Chen, Kenji C. Liu, and Tiana Nobile published work as part of Unmargins' "Incantations" collection.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fatimah Asghar, Hieu Minh Nguyen, & Kimiko Hahn were included in Bustle's "9 New Poetry Collections You Can Read On Your Lunch Break."
Lucy Tan, Gina Apostol, and Nicole Chung were all included in The Million's "Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2018 Book Preview."
Sally Wen Mao's new book of poetry, OCULUS, is now available for pre-order.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello interviewed Lillian Li on Electric Literature about Lillian's recently-published novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant.
Bonnie Chau's new collection of stories, All Roads Lead to Blood, is now available for pre-order.
최 Lindsay’s book Transverse was the recipient of an open call selection from Futurepoem.
Aria Aber's manuscript “Hard Damage” was the winner of the 2018 Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize.
NYSCA/NYFA has awarded fiction fellowships to Swati Khurana and Sejal Shah.
June 2018
Fatimah Asghar was featured in an interview in The Teal Mango about her upcoming book of poetry and her web series "Brown Girls"
Jon Pineda sat down for an interview by Timothy Moore in the Chicago Review of Books.
May 2018
Jennifer S. Cheng’s poetry collection, MOON: LETTERS MAPS POEMS, received a starred review at Publishers Weekly.
Jennifer S. Cheng was interviewed regarding hybrid writing, flash, and her writing process at Black Warrior Review.
Ryan Lee Wong published a review of Mel Chin's new survey at the Queens Museum in Hyperallergic.
Ryan Lee Wong was featured in an interview in A Blade of Grass about his work with Chinatown Art Brigade.
Jean Ho published this personal essay in PANK Magazine.
Jenny Xie received the Holmes National Poetry Prize award from Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil published this list of eleven new collections by Asian American poets in Poetry Society, with a special shoutout to Kundiman.
Michelle Lin's set of poems "I Have Lain in the Dirt and Known this Bed" was published in The Wanderer.
Duy Doan was featured in Hyphen Magazine for his poetry collection We Play a Game.
Rajiv Mohabir received honorable mention for The Cowherd's Son from the Eric Hoffer Awards in Poetry.
Kien Lam's poem "Lunar Mansions" was published in the latest issue of the American Poetry Review.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil was featured in India's OPEN Magazine and PBS NewsHour. She also sat down for a Tin House interview about her new poetry collection, Oceanic.
Shankar Narayan was interviewed by Dujie Tahat for the April 2018 issue of Moss journal.
Hieu Minh Nguyen was featured in NBC Asian America's #RedefineAtoZ 2018 list.
April 2018
Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay, “Writing Letters to Mao,” was featured at Catapult.
Jenny Xie's book, "Eye Level" was reviewed by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker.
Aria Aber and Lucy Tan were named incoming 2018-2019 Fellows at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing.
Jenny Xie spoke to Shondaland about her new book, "Eye Level."
Cathy Linh Che was the featured Poet of the Week by Brooklyn Poets.
Chen Chen's poem "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party," was featured on Poets.org's Poem-a-Day.
Janine Joseph's 2014 Poetry Prize winning book, "Driving without a License," won the da Vinci Eye award for superior cover art, presented by the Eric Hoffer Award.
Cinelle Barnes published an essay, "An Open Letter to My Dog: I Couldn't Have Written This Without You," in Literary Hub.
Amy Lam's interview with Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Haunted by Survival," was published with the Poetry Foundation.
Jennifer Chang's poem "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once" was published in the New Yorker
Moeko Fujii published her essay "What “Isle of Dogs” Gets Right About Japan" in the New Yorker.
Angela So's essay, "The Inspiration of Houston's Youth Poetry Slam," was published in the Houston Chronicle.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil published her fourth poetry collection, "Oceanic" with Copper Canyon Press.
Chris Santiago and Hieu Minh Nguyen are both recipients of the 2018 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers.
R.A. Villanueva sat down for an interview with Oxford Poetry, and spoke about his work with Kundiman about creating an exchange with U.K. poets.
Monica Sok and Paul Tran are both winners of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest.
Jennifer Chang's second book, "Some Say the Lark" won the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award.
Matthew Salesses's essay, "The Body That's Too Asian and Too Sick for America" was published on Medium as a part of the "Unruly Body" series by Roxane Gay.
March 2018
Jennifer S. Cheng participated in a roundtable discussion with Shamala Gallagher, April Freely, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and Addie Tsai about lyric essays and marginalized identity at Essay Daily.
Duy Doan published his book of poems, "We Play a Game," a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.
Jee Leong Koh was featured in Hyphen Magazine, "A Gift of Poems: An Interview with Jee Leong Koh."
Hieu Minh Nguyen's poem "Baptism" was featured in the New York Times.
Sarah Kay published her newest book, "All Our Wild Wonder" with Hachette Book Group.
Karissa Chen published her mini-collection of essays with Awst Press.
Karissa Chen, Wo Chan, Rajiv Mohabir, Kimiko Hahn, Gina Apostol, and Marilyn Chin were featured in the anthology, "Go Home!" published by the Asian American Writer's Workshop and Feminist Press.
Joseph O. Legaspi curated a special portfolio of Philippine-American Lit for World Literature Today, featuring R. Zamora Linmark, Jason Bayani, Eugene Gloria, Janine Joseph, Oliver de la Paz, Sabina Murray, and Jake Ricafrente.
February 2018
Karissa Chen's story "Blue Tears" was a featured exclusive in the Rumpus as an excerpt from the anthology "Go Home!" from the Feminist Press and the Asian American Writer's Workshop.
Chen Chen wrote four new poems in Winter Tangerine including a statement piece about his mentorship with our co-founder Joseph O. Legaspi.
Sigrid Nunez published her eighth book, "The Friend," with Riverhead Books.
Matthew Salesses published "Against Page-Limits, Or: Does the Length Match the Reach?" and the part one of his essay series, "What is Craft and What Does It Do" with Pleiades Magazine.
Bao Phi and his book, "A Different Pond," was named Best Picture Book by the Asian/ Pacific American Librarians Association.
Shelley Wong had four poems published, "[the ocean will take us one day]"; "Pride Month"; "All Beyoncés & Lucy Lius––"; and "Sightlines", in the Kenyon Review's special issue Resistance, Change, Survival.
January 2018
Sadia Shepard's short story "Foreign-Returned" was published in The New Yorker.
Bao Phi's book "A Different Pond" won the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book published in the country.
Ocean Vuong's debut poetry collection "Night Sky With Exit Wounds" won the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Mai Der Vang and her book "Afterland" is a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award in recognition of a first book by a poet of genuine promise.
Paisley Rekdal's "Imaginary Vessels" and Monica Youn's "Blackacre" are nominated for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in recognition of a book by a mid-career poet.
Cathy Linh Che had two poems, "In the dream of a little life" and "Ghost," published on Pinwheel.
Jordan Alam and Susanna Kwan published two pieces of fiction in TAYO Literary Magazine issue seven, and Michelle Lin, Jane Lin, Duy Doan, Shamala Gallagher, Suman Chhabra, Troy Osaki, Elizabeth Tran, and Ching-In Chen all had poetry published in the magazine too.