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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 2020
George Abraham and Meng Jin had their books Birthright and Little Gods featured in The Millions’ A Year in Reading by Meg Giddings.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s essay “Cancer is a Day that Never Ends” was featured in Joyland Magazine.
Jan Henry Gray was interviewed by Yale-NUS College Introduction to Poetry 2020.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s book Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved was reviewed in Poetry Flash.
Anne Kwok’s poem “Night Fever at Grandma’s House” won third place prize in No Tokens Journal’s Young Poets’ Prize.
K-Ming Chang’s short story collection Resident Aliens is forthcoming with One World Books.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s flash fiction story “Objects” was featured in AAWW: The Margins.
Meng Jin received a 2021 Creative Capital Award for her project Mothers and Girls: A Fake Memoir.
Mayukh Sen’s essay “Bengali First: The Fierce Commitments of Soumitra Chatterjee” was featured in Criterion Collection.
Lillian Li’s novel Number One Chinese Restaurant was New York Public Library’s Book of the Day.
Jessica Yuan’s poem “Disorientation” was included in Best New Poets 2020.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book World of Wonders was Barnes & Nobles’s Book of the Year.
Sigrid Nunez and Cathy Park Hong had their books included in New York Times Books Critics’ Top Books of 2020.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “Bill Pay” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Split this Rock.
Cathy Park Hong, K-Ming Chang, and Sejal Shah had their books included in NPR’s Best Books of 2020.
Jen Lue’s story “Hello, doorknob” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins.
November 2020
Helene Achanzar joined Poetry Northwest as an editorial assistant.
Chen Chen was interviewed by Karen Zheng in Lantern Review.
Rick Barot and Monica Sok had their poetry collections included in New York Public Library’s list of 2020’s Best Books.
Craig Santos Perez’s academic book Navigating Chamoru Poetry from Guåhan is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press in 2021.
Helene Achanzar’s poem “Marfa (Again and Beyond)” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Sixth Finch.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book of essays World of Wonders was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello has two poems featured in Kenyon Review Online.
Justin Rovillos Monson’s poem “everybody dies” was featured in The Atlantic.
Jasmine Sawers’s flash story “Still Life with Conch Shell” was featured in The Margins.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Commencement Speech, Delivered to a Herd of Walrus Calves” was featured in Four Way Review.
Don Mee Choi’s collection DMZ Colony won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.
Chen Chen’s essays “Against Universality, in Praise of Anger” and “On Nightmares” were featured in the Poets & Writers Craft Capsule series.
George Abraham’s poems “before he was their ‘great poet’” and “Autobiography Of.” are featured in The Baffler.
Christopher James Llego’s short story “Docile Bodies,” published first in McSweeney’s 62: Queer Fiction, was featured on Electric Literature.
Paul Tran’s first book of poetry All The Flowers Kneeling is coming out Spring 2022 with Penguin Books.
Rajiv Mohabir has six poems featured in South Asian Avant Garde Anthology with AAWW.
Beth Nguyen’s essay “Cake Isn't Just Cake During a Pandemic. Here's What I Learned Decades Ago About Baking in Anxious Times” was featured in TIME.
Ayesha Raees’s poetry collection Coining a Wishing Tower was chosen by Kaveh Akbar as the 2020 Broken River Prize Winner with Platypus Press.
K-Ming Chang’s short story “An Aquatic History of My Family” was featured in The Margins Land Folio.
October 2020
Ed Lin has an excerpt from his YA debut David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until he Graduates from an Ivy League College featured in Teen Vogue.
Timothy Moore’s stories “Apology to my Father on his Sixtieth Birthday” and “Latter Days” were featured in Midnight Breakfast.
Andie Millares’s essay “How Did Vicks VapoRub Become Every Brown Person’s Cure-All?” was featured in Catapult.
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard’s flash story “Monsters” was featured in Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins.
Shruti Swamy’s flash story “In Blue” was featured in The Cincinnati Review’s miCRo.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Sunday Stroll Through the Marriage Market” was featured in The Adroit Journal.
Don Mee Choi has an excerpt from her poem “The Orphans” featured in Poetry Daily.
E. J. Koh was interviewed by Helena de Groot on Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Off the Shelf.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil was interviewed by Ross Gay for Poets & Writers.
Kazim Ali, Jessica Abughattas, and K-Ming Chang are featured in Lantern Review’s article, “An October APA Poetry Companion: Books to Curl Up With for Fall.”
Kenji Liu has six translations of Morio Hayashida’s poems featured in Asymptote.
Shelley Wong’s poems “Refrain” and “Walking Across Fire Island” were featured in Waxwing.
George Abraham’s poetry collection Birthright was reviewed in The Rumpus.
Matthew Salesses’s novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear is featured in Electric Lit’s article, “10 Contemporary Books by Korean American Writers.”
Franny Choi’s essay “Racism is a Reboot: Binging Battlestar Galactica at the End of a World” was featured in The Rumpus.
K-Ming Chang’s flash story “Deal” was featured in Wigleaf.
Helene Achanzar’s poem “O desire, I grow my hair long” is Poem of the Week at Poetry Northwest.
Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award.
Joseph O. Legaspi, Jenny M. Xie, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
September 2020
Jasmine Sawers’ piece “Mango Son Theen” was featured in Jellyfish Review.
Rajiv Mohabir is a recipient of the 2020 American Poets Prize.
Jasmine Sawers’ collection “The Weight of the Moon and Other Measurements” will be published by Rose Metal Press.
Monica Ong has two audio visual poems in A Velvet Giant.
K-Ming Chang is one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Recipients.
Hala Alyan’s poem “Spoiler” was featured in The New Yorker.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Wet Market” was featured in Literary Hub.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book World of Wonders was reviewed by The New York Times.
K-Ming Chang’s debut novel Bestiary was reviewed by Slant Magazine.
Chen Chen’s fiction piece “Summer” was featured in The Margins.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil was named a finalist for this year's Kirkus Prize.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “Bill Pay” was featured as the poem of the week in Split This Rock.
August 2020
Helene Achanzar has three poems in the Summer & Fall 2020 issue of Poetry Northwest.
Matthew Salesses' book "Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshops" will be out in January 2021 via Catapult Books.
K-Ming Chang’s piece “Family: Orchid” was featured in Joyland.
Shelley Wong’s piece “How to Live in Southern California” was featured in the Kenyon Review.
Kimberly Alidio, Todd Kaneko, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil were featured in the Lantern Review’s “August APA Poetry Companion: Books to Celebrate the End of Summer”.
Marilyn Chin was interviewed by Sally Wen Mao for the Poetry Foundation.
Marilyn Chin was awarded the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation.
Joshua Nguyen’s manuscript “Come Clean” is a finalist for The Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press.
Eddie Kim’s poem “Telephone of the Wind” was featured in The Slowdown.
Jessica Yuan’s chapbook “Threshold Amnesia” was selected by Justin Phillip Reed as winner of the 2019 Yemassee Chapbook contest.
Aria Aber and Chen Chen were chosen as finalists for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.
Swati Khurana’s piece “A Recipe for Flash Fiction” was featured on The Margins.
Matthew Salesses’ book “Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear” was published by Little a.
Shruti Swamy’s book “A House Is a Body: Stories” was published by Algonquin Books.
Danielle Batalion Ola’s piece “Ask Me Anything” was featured in the Summer 2020 issue of Carve Magazine.
Kenji Liu’s hybrid essay poem “Zuihitsu: Teaching Aiiieeeee! as Intersectional Ecological Archive” was featured in Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies.
July 2020
Sejal Shah’s reading list “9 Books Where Women of Color Tell Their Own Stories About Mental Health” was featured in Electric Lit.
Paisley Rekdal’s poem “Happiness” was featured in The Slowdown.
Joshua Nguyen’s poem “In Praise of My Threaded Eyebrows” was featured in The Slowdown.
Monica Ong’s visual poem “Blood Moon Woman” was featured in Petrichor: A Journal of Text + Image.
Shankar Narayan won the River Heron Review Poetry Prize for 2020.
Jane Wong’s poem “This Is What Survival Looks Like” was featured in the Yale Review.
Monica Ong’s audio poem “Yellow Insomnia” was published at Tricycle: A Buddhist Review.
K-Ming Chang and Shruti Swamy were featured in Publisher’s Weekly’s “Writers to Watch Fall 2020.”
Mai Nardone’s short story was featured in issue 60 of McSweeney’s Quarterly.
K-Ming Chang, t. tran le, Mai Nardone, Jane Wong, and Seema Yasmin were all featured in issue 14 of Apogee Journal.
Jess Rizkallah’s pieces “for the kids i keep seeing in my dreams” and “in my dreams i read arabic fast” were featured in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Dan Lau’s poem “Molt” was featured in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Rick Barot’s poem “The Field” was featured in The New Yorker.
K-Ming Chang’s short story “Asymmetry” was featured in Jellyfish Review.
Matthew Salesses has a column on Asian American Literature featured in Catapult.
June 2020
Joseph Legaspi’s piece “Shelter-in-Place: Forty-Eight Fragments, Episodes, Anecdotes, Fodders, and Vignettes” was featured in World Literature Today.
Craig Santos Perez’s poem “Contact Tracing” was the featured in Orion Magazine.
Jasmine Sawers story “All Your Fragile History” placed second in the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction.
Jeevan Anthony Narney was featured in the Summer 2020 issue of The Georgia Review.
Aria Aber was interviewed by The Rumpus about literary community, the role of the divine in poetry, and the way in which solitude shapes an artist’s life.
Beth Nguyen, Eugene Gloria, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Jai Dulani were all featured in Waxwing Magazine.
Troy Osaki read several poems from his working chapbook “Archipelago” at the 2020 Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival.
Sun Yung Shin’s poem “A History of Domestication” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.
Craig Santos Perez’s poem “ars pasifika” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.
Leah Silvieus & Lee Herrick’s anthology “The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit” was released from Orison Books.
Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Riding In a Bus On the Way to Prison” was published in the Adroit Journal.
May 2020
Franny Choi’s poem “Hangul Abecedarian” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.
Monica Ong’s poem “Jupiter's Family of Comets” was published in the Blurred Genres Contest at Redivider Journal.
Marilyn Chin’s poem “Sage #3” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.
Paisley Rekdal’s poem “有 識: Have Knowledge” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.
Kimberly Alidio’s book : once teeth bones coral : to be published in Belladonna* in August, 2020.
Rana Tahir’s book Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Noor Inayat Khan was published by Choose Your Own Adventure.
Seema Yasmin’s illustrated book Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure was published by Harper Collins.
Christine Hou’s poem “Playground” was published in Poetry Northwest.
April 2020
Karissa Chen’s piece “How Quickly an Unfounded Fear Can Become Reasonable Caution” was published in The Atlantic.
Wo Chan was selected as a recipient of a 2020 Undocupoets Fellowship.
J Mae Barizo’s essay “Foraging Felt Like a Fad From the Past. Turns Out It Was a Reality Check I Didn’t Know I Needed.” was published in Esquire.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “School Supplies” was featured in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.
Chen Chen, Jenny Xie, and Monica Youn were published in the Spring 2020 issue of Ploughshares.
Craig Santos Perez was selected a recipient of the 2020 Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship.
K-Ming Chang published two micro-stories, “Guoguo” and “Half-Moon Bay,” in The Offing.
Jay Deshpande’s poem “Kiwi” was published in The New Republic.
Sejal Shah interviewed Cathy Park Hong in Guernica Magazine on her book of essays, Minor Feelings.
Rachelle Cruz’s essay “Reaching Through the Screen: The Reality for Adjunct Professors During COVID-19” was published in Poets & Writers.
Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “13th Anniversary” was published in Lantern Review.
Marilyn Chin’s “Urban Love Poem” was featured in the first episode of Poetry in America Season 2.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Nature Morte” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “How to Write a Novel When Everyone You Love Might Be Losing it” was published in Literary Hub.
Jenny Boully, Philip Metres, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Sigrid Nunez were selected as recipients 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Sayuri Ayer’s poem “Claiming Honey” was selected as the runner up to Columbia Journal’s Womxn’s History Month Special Issue.
George Abraham published their poetry collection, Birthright, with Button Poetry.
Noah Arhm Choi published their poetry collection, Cut to Bloom, with Write Bloody Publishing.
Kenji C. Liu’s poem “When I cough during the pandemic” was featured in The Rumpus.
Sally Wen Mao, Sun Yung Shin, and Ocean Vuong were featured in the April 2020 issue of Poetry Magazine.
March 2020
E.J. Koh’s poem “Happy” was featured in The Stranger.
Jennifer Chang’s poem “Obedience, or the Lying Tale” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
Alison Roh and Fatimah Asghar were featured in a zine by the Asian American Feminist Collective, titled “Care in the Time of the Coronavirus.”
Chen Chen published 5 poems, “A Queer Translates Rilke,” “Self-Portrait as a Wild Extrovert,” “Every Poem Is My Most Asian Poem,” “My boyfriend & I have a crush,” and “A Queer Translates Himself,” in Hobart.
Aria Aber was selected as a winner of a 2020 Whiting Award.
Monica Sok’s poem “ABC for Refugees” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
T Kira Madden’s memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls will be made into a feature adaptation directed by Frankie Shaw.
Amy Meng published an essay in Buzzfeed News on disabilities and the COVID-19 response.
Rohan Chhetri was interviewed by New England Review on two poems, “Indian Railway Canticle” and “Bordersong.”
Pik-Shuen Fung’s book Ghost Forest will be published by One Word/Random House.
Franny Choi, T Kira Madden, & Ocean Vuong were selected as finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards.
Hazem Fahmy’s poem “Ars (عرص) Poetica” was published in The Margins.
Jee Leong Koh’s poetry collection Connor & Seal was published by Sibling Rivalry Press.
Paul Tran’s poem “Galileo” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Chen Chen’s poem “I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
Jennifer Chang’s poem “My Own Private Patriarchy” was published in the March issue of Poetry Magazine.
Oliver de la Paz’s poem “In Defense of Small Towns” was featured in an episode of The Slowdown.
EJ Koh was intervied by Electric Lit on her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.
Craig Santos Perez’s poem “Good Fossil Fuels” was published in Tiger Moth Review.
February 2020
Danny Thanh Nguyen’s essay “After the Honeymoon Phase” was published in The Offing.
Monica Sok’s poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On was published by Copper Canyon Press.
EJ Koh was interviewed by The Rumpus on her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.
Muriel Leung’s poetry collection Imagine Us, The Swarm was selected as the winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, and will be published in Spring 2021.
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection Oculus was selected as a finalist of the LA Times Book Prize in poetry.
Monica Sok’s poem “Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Nay Saysourinho’s essay “The Many Disappearances in Run Me to Earth” was published in Ploughshares.
George Abraham read their poem, “Yikes Poetica,” on Button Poetry.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Questions while searching for birds with my half-white sons, aged six and nine, National Audubon Bird Count Day, Oxford, MS” was published in Greenpeace.
Don Mee Choi’s poem “The Orphans” and Kimiko Hahn’s poem “Three Charms From Foreign Bodies” were published in the LA Review of Books Quarterly.
Janice Lobo Sapigao was appointed as the 2020-21 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate.
Joshua Nguyen’s poems “In Praise of My Threaded Eyebows,” “Add Cocunut Water,” and “You were born in Vietnam, I don’t see any of that in your food” were published in The Offing.
EJ Koh was featured in The Japan Times for her memoir, The Magical Language of Others.
Melody Gee’s essay “Language & Conversion” was published in Commonweal Magazine.
January 2020
Terisa Siagatonu’s poem “Deserving” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Ricco Siasoco was interviewed by Asian American Writer’s Workshop on his poetry collection, The Foley Artist.
Arthur Sze was interviewed by Kenji Liu in Tricycle Magazine on his collection, Sight Lines.
Jane Wong’s poem “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” was featured as part of The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica series.
Ricco Siasoco was interviewed by The Interlocutor Magazine on his poetry collection, The Foley Artist.
R.A. Villanueva’s poem “Fish Heads” was featured as part of The Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica series.
Seema Yasmin’s poetry collection If God Was A Virus: The Ebola Poems will be published by Hay Market Books.
Monica Youn’s poem “Study of Two Figures (Agave/Pentheus)” was published in The Yale Review.
Aria Aber’s poems “First Snow,” “Nostos,” and “Hades” were published in The Yale Review.
Sandra Lim’s poems “Bent Lyre,” “The Stronger,” and “San Francisco” were published in The Yale Review.
Tiana Nobile’s poetry collection Cleave will be published by Hub City Press in Spring 2021.
Paul Tran’s poem “Copernicus” was published in The New Yorker.
Meng Jin’s novel Little Gods was published by Custom House Books.
Sandra Lim’s poem “Jean Rhys” was published in Poetry Magazine.
Wo Chan’s poem “june 8, the smiley barista remembers my name” was published in Poetry Magazine.
Philip Metre’s poems, “Three Books (A Simultaneity),” “Future Anterior,” and “Mixtape for My Twenties” were published in The American Poetry Review.
Viplav Saini’s essay, “The Balancing Acts of Vijay Seshadri,” was published in The American Poetry Review.
Craig Santos Perez published two poems, “ECL” and “The Zen of Spam,” in The Rumpus.
Franny Choi’s poem “Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon” was published in The New York Times as part of their Privacy Project.
K-Ming Chang’s short story “Auntland” was published in Vol.1 Brooklyn.
Ching-in Chen’s poem “South in Hundreds” was the featured Poem-a-Day for Poets.org.
Kelly Tsai read two poems, “#SheThePeacebuilder” and “The Divided Soul,” for the organization Search for Common Ground.