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 2019
Melody Gee published an essay on Asian American memoirs in Commonweal Magazine.
Arthur Sze was interviewed in Michigan Quarterly Review on his collection, Sight Lines.
Craig Santos Perez’s poetry collection Habitat Threshold was published by Omnidawn.
Paisley Rekdal’s poem “Once” was featured in Poets.org’s Dear Poet 2020 series.
Oliver de la Paz was interviewed in The Rumpus on his collection, The Boy in the Labyrinth.
Kimiko Hahn’s poem “Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd”” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
K-Ming Chang’s essay “Consequences of Water” was published in The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop).
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “When I Am Six” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
E.J. Koh was featured in The Stranger for her forthcoming memoir The Magical Language of Others.
Muriel Leung wrote a review on Kenji Liu’s poetry collection Monsters I Have Been in The Georgia Review.
Franny Choi had four poems, including “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On” published in Poetry Magazine.
Jess Rizkallah’s poems “the prefix mar means sea” and “icarus puts on her make up” were published in The Rumpus.
November 2019
E.J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others will be published in 2020 by Tin House Press.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay “What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller” was published in LitHub.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poetry collection Shahr-E-Jaanan: The City of the Beloved will be published in 2020 by Tupelo Press.
Purvi Shah’s poem “Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Arthur Sze won a 2019 National Book Prize for his collection Sight Lines.
Hazem Fahmy’s poem “Abdel Halim Performs a Private Concert for My Mother” was selected as a finalist for Boston Review’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
Matthew Olzmann and Oliver de la Paz were published in Issue 16 of Four Way Review.
Kazim Ali’s essay “A Letter from an Indian in Exile” was published in The Punch Magazine.
George Abraham’s poem “Ekphrasis With Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed Halhul Vineyard” was featured in The Poetry Foundation’s PoetryNow series.
Sandra Lim’s poem “A Walk Round the Park” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Don Mee Choi’s translation of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry collection Autobiography of Death won the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.
Jane Wong’s poem ““After He Travels Through Ash, My Grandfather Speaks” was published in Lantern Review.
Melody S. Gee’s poem “And So More” was published in Lantern Review.
George Abraham’s poetry collection Birthright was published by Button Poetry.
Ansley Moon’s poetry collection Girl Country was a finalist for the Slope Editions Book Prize.
Cathy Linh Che, Sarah Gambito, and Joseph Legaspi were featured in an episode of the Poetry Foundation’s VS Podcast.
Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet 42” was published in The Adroit Journal.
George Abraham published a playlist of poems in Verse Press.
October 2019
Sejal Shah’s book of essays, This is One Way to Dance, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in June 2020.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “The Belladonna of Sadness” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Danielle Ola’s essay “The Idle Talk of Mothers and Daughters” was published in The Common.
Margaret Rhee’s essay “A New Slate of Films Serve as Love Letters to Korean American Mothers” was published in Bitch Media.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Alison Roh’s poem “My Father’s Hands / Las manos de mi padre” was featured as the Poem of the Week in Split This Rock.
Mai Der Vang’s poem “Out of Research Into Reveries” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Paul Tran’s poems “The Cave,” “Endosymbiosis,” and “Incident Report” were published in Poetry Magazine.
Cathy Linh Che made an appearance on a Channel 5 local news coverage on the rise and power of poetry.
Jaswinder Bolina’s poem “Probable Poem for the Furious Infant” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Esther Lee’s forthcoming book Sacrificial Metal won the Minds on Fire Book Prize from Conduit Magazine.
Karen An-Hwei Lee’s poem “On Floriography” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
John Pineda’s poem “Delayed Harvest” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Leah Silvieus discussed her book Arabilis in an interview with Hypen Magazine.
Cathy Linh Che and Janine Joseph were named recipients of the 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
Kazumi Chin’s essay “Notes on the Post-Apocalypse” was published in Medium.
Franny Choi’s poem “How to Let Go of the World” was featured in PEN America’s Poetry Series.
Cathy Linh Che’s poem “The opposite of ocean is no ocean.” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
Tamiko Beyer had a conversation with Catapult on her short story, “Last Days.”
September 2019
Jay Deshpande’s poems “In the Time of Discernment” and “December” were published in Hyperallergic.
Ocean Vuong was named a recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s forthcoming book Sings Like a Bird will be published by Counterpoint Press.
Paul Tran’s poem “Closure” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
Arthur Sze’s collection Sight Lines was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Poetry.
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Fiction.
Chen Chen published GESUNDHEIT!, a collaborative chapbook with Sam Herschel Wein, from Glass Poetry Press.
Jessica Abughattas’ forthcoming collection Split won the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize from University of Arkansas Press.
Sonia Mukherji’s “Dance Poem––Boat Song” was published in Kitaab.
Jennifer Chang wrote an essay on Wong May’s poem “In Memoriam” in Poetry Daily.
Sally Wen Mao discussed her new book Oculus in an episode of The Poetry Foundation’s podcast, Poetry off the Shelf.
Rajiv Mohabir’s forthcoming memoir Antiman was selected as the winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
Aria Aber’s “Ideology” was the Poetry Foundation’s featured poem on August 29th, 2019.
Shelley Wong’s forthcoming book As She Appears was selected as the winner of the 2019 YesYesBooks Pamet River Prize.
Purvi Shah published 2 poems in Ms. Magazine, along with an interview discussing feminist poetry.
August 2019
Ching-In Chen’s poem “Lantern Letter: A Zuihitsu” was featured in Split This Rock.
Mg Roberts’ “Cylanders II” was the Poetry Foundation’s featured poem on August 29th, 2019.
Monica Sok was named a finalist of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
Franny Choi was selected as a winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
Noah Arhm Choi won the 2019 Writes Bloody Publishing Contest and will be publishing a collection of poems in 2020.
Franny Choi was interviewed by Hyphen Magazine on the A Day in the Queer Life of Asian Pacific America digital exhibition.
K-Ming Chang’s personal essay “Mazu” was featured in No Tokens.
Craig Santos Perez’s “A Whole Foods in Hawai‘i” was the Poetry Foundation’s featured poem on August 21st, 2019.
Tamiko Beyer was featured in a roundtable interview among the writers featured in the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019’ anthology.
Aria Aber’s “Can You Describe Your Years in Prison” was Poetry Daily’s featured poem on August 18th, 2019.
Ansley Moon was named Poets.org’s Curriculum Consultant for Teach This Poem.
Chen Chen’s “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Possibilities” was Poets.org’s featured Teach This Poem.
Jess Rizkallah had a conversation with f(r)iction.
R. Zamora Linmark was interviewed by them. and us on his latest novel, The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart.
Shelley Wong did an interview with the Kenyon Review.
Diana Khoi Nguyen was featured in an episode of VS Podcast.
Aria Aber published 3 poems on The Rumpus.
Timothy Yu wrote a response to an essay by poet Bob Hicok for The New Republic.
Ricco Siasoco announced a debut short story collection, The Foley Artist.
Lit Hub recently published an article on the second biannual Asian American Literature Festival, featuring many of our fellows.
Ocean Vuong and Chen Chen recommended authors for an August reading list for Electric Literature, featuring work by Sarah Gambito and Franny Choi.
July 2019
J. Mae Barizo was just elected as President of our Board of Trustees.
Ocean Vuong was named the Asian/Pacific/American at NYU’s Artist-in-Residence for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Aria Aber was featured on a list of books to anticipate in the second half of 2019 on The Rumpus.
Jennifer Chang wrote an essay on Robert Hass’s “Meditation at Lagunitas” on Poetry Daily.
Jane Wong wrote a personal essay on offerings to the dead in the Common Magazine.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan published Starling Days.
Chen Chen published a lyric essay in Nat. Brut Magazine.
Kien Lam wrote an article for League of Legends’ E-Sports page.
Kenji C Liu was interviewed for Monsters I Have Been in the Chicago Review of Books.
Yanyi, Kazim Ali, Prageeta Sharma, and Cathy Linh Che’s poetry were featured in a folio of invocation poems that will be read aloud at the Poet’s Peace Breakfast at the 2019 Asian American Literature Festival.
Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir, Ching-In Chen, Arthur Sze, J Mae Barizo, Mai Der Vang, and Sarah Gambito were featured in the July-August Issue of Poetry Magazine.
Mai Nardone’s “Welcome Me to the Kingdom” will be published in Ploughshares Summer 2019 Issue.
Franny Choi, Kenji C. Liu, and Sally Wen Mao were featured in a 2019 Mid-Year Review of Poetry from the Adroit Journal.
Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was featured in The Guardian.
W. Todd Kaneko and Kazim Ali had poetry featured in the Cortland Review.
Shelley Wong’s “As She Appears” was featured in the Kenyon Review.
Craig Santos Perez’s “Teething Borders” was featured in the Southeast Review.
June 2019
Chen Chen’s released Issue 3 of the poetry journal underblong.
Asghar Fatimah and Safia Elhillo recommended 7 poetry collections by Muslim Writers for Electric Literature, featuring Hala Alyan The Twenty-Ninth Year.
Franny Choi was featured in the Writers Recommend column in Poets & Writers.
Purvi Shah published her second full-length poetry collection, Miracle Marks.
Fatimah Asghar, T Kira Madden, and Ocean Vuong’s works were featured in a list of 41 LGBTQ books in Oprah Magazine.
Joseph Legaspi’s prose poem “I’m coaxing the roach” was featured in Issue #124 of Red Fez.
William Pei Shih’s short story “Enlightenment” was featured in the Summer 2019 Issue of VQR.
Ocean Vuong discusses On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous on Late Night with Seth Myers.
Don Mee Choi won the Griffin Poetry Prize for her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s The Autobiography of Death!
Jean Chen Ho wrote an essay on her experience in Las Vegas during her MFA program for The Rumpus.
Craig Santos Perez co-edited an anthology of indigenous literature from Micronesia, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia.
Lindsay Choi won the Baltic Writing Residency in Stockholm, Sweden.
Jennifer S. Cheng helped contributed to A Map Is Only One Story, an anthology on immigration, family, and the meaning of home.
Duy Doan won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in the Bisexual Poetry category for We Play a Game.
Muriel Leung became a Sundress Publication fellow and resident.
Lillian Li was featured on the Washington Post and wrote an article for the Michigan Quarterly Review for the paperback release of her novel Number One Chinese Restaurant.
Ocean Vuong published his debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and was featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, NPR, and USA Today.
Jason Bayani was interviewed by Kubo.
Franny Choi had a conversation with Gala Mukomolova for the Poetry Foundation.
May 2019
Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “Chasm” was featured the featured Poetry Daily poem (5/31)!
Jane Wong wrote an essay on familial love and mosquitoes for Shenandoah Literary Magazine.
Jean Chen Ho published a short story titled “Doppelgängers” on Guernica.
W Todd Kaneko and Purvi Shah were featured in the Lantern Review Issue 7, No. 2.
Aria Aber’s poem “Afghan Funeral in Paris” was featured in The New Yorker.
Rachel Ronquillo Gray’s poem “Girl Gone Rogue” was featured in the Tahoma Literary Review’s Issue 14.
Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “Confessional” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
R.O. Kwon was featured in an article about her creative process with 4 other Korean American authors on Buzzfeed.
Bushra Rehman was interviewed on the so…poetry? podcast.
Alexander Chee, Monique Truong, and Sally Wen Mao were featured in an article by Electric Literature on the first Asian American author they read.
Franny Choi did an interview with The Paris Review for her collection Soft Science.
Lillian Li and Fatimah Asghar were featured in an APA Heritage Month Reading List curated by UC Berkeley Library.
Amy Lam wrote an essay on tattoos, diaspora, and Jeremy Lin for Tin House.
Nay Saysourhino wrote an essay on the Southeast Asian refugee crisis for the Kenyon Review.
Franny Choi was interviewed by The Adroit Journal about her poem “Turing Test.”
Fatimah Asghar’s “I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Melody S. Gee wrote an essay on motherhood and Chinese American identity for The Blood Orange Review.
Fatimah Asghar was featured in a poetry folio celebrating the start Ramadan curated by The Poetry Foundation.
Monique Truong, Ligaya Mishan, and Ocean Vuong were mentioned in an interview with Ruth Reichl “By the Book” interview for the New York Times.
April 2019
Mia Ayumi Malhotra and her collection Isako Isako won the 2018 Nautilus Gold Winner for Poetry.
Ocean Vuong and Chen Chen were featured on a list of 13 Books by Queer Poets for Buzzfeed News.
Cathy Linh Che published three new poems on The Offing.
Franny Choi, Fatimah Asghar, and Sally Wen Mao were featured in a list of 17 of the Best Poetry Books for National Poetry Month on The Oprah Magazine.
Jason Bayani was the featured writer for Poets & Writers “Writers Recommend” series.
Jason Bayani published his latest poetry collection Locus.
Franny Choi, Kenji C. Liu, and Fatimah Asghar were featured on a list of Queer Poetry Collections to read during National Poetry Month from Book Riot.
Sarah Gambito was featured in a list of three poets who find meaning, and material, in lived experience for her collection Loves You in The New York Times.
Lillian Li’s debut novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was reviewed on Shiny New Books.
Sarah Gambito’s collection Loves You was reviewed on Poets.org.
Franny Choi’s collection Soft Science was reviewed by The Arkansas International and Lambda Literary.
Mai Der Vang’s poem “Sorrowed” was published in The Rumpus.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Fatimah Asghar, and Gina Apostol were featured on a PEN America reading list on diaspora and migration.
Sejal Shah’s article on Invisible Disability was featured in a Longreads reading list of essays/articles on Disability, Accommodations, and School.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is a finalist in the Commonwealth Club’s 88th annual California Book Awards for her poetry collection Isako Isako.
Larissa Pham wrote a personal essay on bathrooms, “A Bathroom of One’s Own,” for The Paris Review.
Jenny Xie published two poems, “Asymmetry” and “Bare,” on The Rumpus.
Kenji C. Liu published his latest poetry collection, Monsters I Have Been.
Jason Bayani published his latest poetry collection, Locus.
Franny Choi published her latest poetry collection, Soft Science.
March 2019
Hieu Minh Nguyen received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
J. Mae Barizo was interviewed by Poets House.
Abeeda Shahid Talukder was interviewed by and created a folio of poems for the Tupelo Quarterly.
Chen Chen was interviewed by The Broken Plate.
Sarah Gambito was featured on the Commonplace Podcast: Conversations with Poets (and Other People).
W. Todd Kaneko was interviewed by the Massachusetts Review.
Aria Aber had two poems published in the March/April 2019 Issue of the Kenyon Review.
Shamala Gallagher and Jason Bayani had poetry featured in the Lantern Review’s Issue 7.1.
T Kira Madden published her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls.
Hieu Minh Nguyen received a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University.
Fatimah Asghar, Duy Doan, and Hieu Minh Nguyen were all finalists for the Lambda Literary Award.
Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant was longlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Kien Lam’s “Silhouettes” was published by the Poetry Foundation.
February 2019
Sally Wen Mao was interviewed by Aline Dolinh for the Adroit Journal.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s collection Ghost Of was the winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Shelley Wong’s manuscript As She Appears was a finalist for the 2019 Alice James Awards.
Fatimah Asghar appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour to talk about Partition and her collection If They Come for Us.
Franny Choi debuted “Periodic,” her monthly column on the first day of her period for Palette Poetry.
Rajiv Mohabir and Craig Santos Perez had a Poet-to-poet interview for the Kenyon Review.
Margaret Rhee and Karen Tei Yamashita’s books won 2019 Best Book awards from the Association of Asian American Studies for Love, Robot and Letters to Memory (respectively).
Rajiv Mohabir published a critical essay on Anthurium about Sundar Popo and Chutney music as large as an expression of Indo-Caribbean identity.
Noah Arhm Choi was interviewed by the Massachusetts Review.
Sarah Kay’s poem “Jakarta, January” was featured on Poets.org as their Poem-a-day (2/11/19).
Sally Wen Mao wrote an article for NYLON on Anna May Wong, fashion, and Chinese American identity.
Jennifer Chang, Ocean Vuong, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poems were featured a folio of love poetry from the Poetry Foundation.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s collection Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems was reviewed on The Rumpus.
Sarah Gambito held a book launch her latest poetry collection, Loves You.
January 2019
Jenny Xie was nominated as a finalist for the Swansea International Dylan Thomas Prize for Eye Level.
George Abraham’s poem “Essay on Submission” was featured as Poets.org’s Poem-a-Day on Janurary 29th.
Angela So and Ching-in Chen were awarded Houston’s 2019 Support for Artists and Creative Individuals grants.
Jenny Xie was nominated as a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards in the PEN Open Book Award category for her poetry collection Eye Level.
Nicole Chung was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography category for All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir.
Sejal Shah wrote an essay, “Even If You Can’t See It: Invisible Disability and Neurodiversity,” for the Kenyon Review.
George Abraham released a poem—“elegy for Home in mirrored graves, ending with a collapse of wings”—on Scalawag.
Sarah Gambito’s collection Loves You: Poems was featured in Publishers Weekly.
Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the "“Autobiography” category.
Joseph Legaspi answered 10 questions for the the Massachusetts Review.
Chen Chen has two poems featured—”Spring” and “Winter”—in Winter issue of the Massachusetts Review.
Kien Lam published three new poems—”Reverse Howl,” “The Jungle Book,” and “Zuihitsu”—on The Rumpus.
George Abraham’s chapbook The Specimen’s Apology was reviewed Michigan Quarterly Review.
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection Oculus was reviewed by The New Yorker.
Chen Chen was featured in Brandeis Magazine.
Zahir Janmohamed wrote an article for The Guardian on contemporary race relations between Arab and African American communities within Detroit.
Fatimah Asghar was interviewed for Poets & Writers.
Franny Choi’s Soft Science was featured in The Rumpus as a Rumpus Poetry Book Club upcoming selection.
Chen Chen was interviewed for Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Duy Doan, Amy Meng, and Jenny Xie’s books were reviewed in the Georgia Review.