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December 2021
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E.J. Koh’s translation of Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle was featured as one of Zephyr Press’ 2021 highlights.
Chen Chen’s poem “Winter” was published in Cape Cod Poetry Review’s Summer 2021 issue.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s article “A Year in Reading” was published by The Millions.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was excerpted by Marie Claire and chosen as their January Book Club Pick.
George Abraham’s essay “Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse” was featured as one of Longreads’ Top Picks of 2021.
Jasmine Sawers’ piece “So Your Dad’s Having a Midlife Crisis” was published by Rejection Letters.
Lillian Li’s article “Nothing is More American than Chinese Food on Christmas” was published in The New York Times’ opinions section.
Jane Wong, Rajiv Mohabir, and Mai Der Vang are on the 2022 PEN America Literary Award Longlist.
Chris Santiago’s poem “Golden Age” was featured on The Slowdown.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was named one of “The Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2022” by Electric Lit.
Rajiv Mohabir was interviewed by Mathangi Subramanian for BOMB Magazine to discuss his memoir Antiman.
Shelley Wong’s poem “The Winter Forecast” was published in the winter issue of New England Review.
Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void, Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm, Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish, and Tiana Nobile’s Cleave appeared on the most “Best Poetry Books of 2021” lists, according to Book Scrolling.
Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother and Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane were featured on Time Magazine’s “The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2022” list.
Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain appeared in The New Yorker’s “Briefly Noted Book Reviews.”
Lee Choi’s Transverse was included on Dennis Cooper’s “Best of 2021” list.
Franny Choi’s “Prayer for the Untranslated Testimony” and “Demilitarized Zone” and E.J. Koh’s “Hysteria” were included in the latest issue of Lantern Review, which was edited by Eugenia Leigh and Iris A. Law.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was named one of "The Most Exciting Book Releases of 2022” by Angela Lashbrook.
Kien Lam’s poem “Almost” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Offing.
Mai Der Vang was selected as one of the judges for the The George Bogin Award by the Poetry Society.
Chen Chen’s “In The Hospital” was read on The Line Break Podcast.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Tiana Nobile’s conversation on transracial and transnational adoption was published on Poets & Writers.
Mai Der Vang’s essay about her book Yellow Rain was published by Entropy Magazine.
George Abraham’s “from UNIVERSAL THEORY IN WHICH EVERY FAILED ATTEMPT AT LOVE IS A SOULMATE FROM AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE” was published in Fiyah Magazine.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane and Matthew Olzmann’s Constellation Route were included on the Rumpus’ “What to Read When 2022 is Just Around the Corner” list.
E.J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s translation of Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle was included as one of Kenyon Review’s Holiday Reading Recommendations.
Truong Tran was interviewed by Muriel Leung for the Poetry Foundation to speak about his collection Book of the Other.
Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir, Matthew Salesses’ Craft in the Real World, E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others, and Sejal Shah’s This is One Way to Dance were included on Entropy Magazine’s “Best Nonfiction Books of 2021” list.
Mai Der Vang and Sophia Terezawa’s conversation about their poetry collections was published by Asian American Writers Workshop.
George Abraham, Kimberly Alidio, Cathy Linh Che, Franny Choi, Angie Sijun Lou, Ocean Vuong, and Jane Wong each had their poems included in Entropy Magazine’s "Best of 2020-2021: Favorite Poems Published Online” list.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Like a Dish Rag Soaked in Bleach" was nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.
Angie Sijun Lou’s “The Nü Country” was published by Kenyon Review.
Lindsay Choi, Jackie Wang, Muriel Leung, Mai Der Vang, Jane Wong, George Abraham, Jessica Abughattas, Rajiv Mohabir, Truong Tran, and Tiana Nobile were each included on Entropy Magazine’s “Best of 2020-2021 Poetry Books" list.
November 2021
Patrick Rosal’s The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems was featured as one of The New York Times “8 New Books We Recommend this Week.”
Muriel Leung created the cover art for the UK release of Chen Chen’s new book Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency.
Aria Aber read Frank Bidart with Kevin Young for The New Yorker Podcast.
R.A. Villanueva performed a reading of "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay for Ours Poetica’s Youtube channel.
W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Monster Theory” was nominated by Broadsided Press for their annual Pushcart Prizes.
Monica Ong’s visual poem Her Gaze was published in Tab Journal’s latest issue.
Peter Ho Davies was interviewed by Daniel Tam-Claiborne for The Rumpus.
Chen Chen’s book Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency will be released in Fall 2022.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives & Kyle Lucia Wu’s Win Me Something were featured on Book Riot’s “9 Great Book Club Picks To Start A Conversation” list.
Eugenia Leigh’s piece “Bipolar II Disorder: Third Evaluation (Ode to the Brain)” was published by Poetry Northwest.
Seema Yasmin’s poetry collection If God is a Virus was picked as one of the New York Public Library’s 2021 Best Books for Adults.
Joshua Nguyen’s poetry collection Come Clean is now available to order from University of Wisconsin Press.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” was featured as the poem of the day for The Slowdown.
Ploi Pirapokin’s essay “Help the Shoots Grow, Pull Them” was featured in issue 11 of Khôra.
Tamiko Beyer interviewed her partner Patti Lynn and fellow activists for her monthly newsletter Starlight and Strategy.
George Abraham interviewed Mohammed El-Kurd about Jerusalem, the revolutionary potential of poetry, and El-Kurd's new book, Rifqa, for Mondoweiss.
Craig Santos Perez was featured on the first episode of Vosa Podcast’s new second season.
Tiana Nobile was interviewed by Stacy Balkun for the University of Arizona Poetry Center about her book Cleave.
Jackie Wang’s poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void was included in Vox’s guide to the 2021 National Book Award finalists.
Jane Wong’s debut memoir Meet Me in Atlantic City will be published in Winter 2023 by Tin House.
Truong Tran was interviewed by PEN America on his new collection Book of the Other.
Mayukh Sen’s nonfiction book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America is now available to purchase from W.W. Norton & Company.
Tiana Nobile and Muriel Leung’s conversation on their new poetry collections was published in Hyphen Magazine.
Troy Osaki’s poem, “Not My Barong from the Closed-Down Asian Mart on Lake City Way but Another One,” was published in the sixth issue of Underblong.
George Abraham won a 2021 Arab American Book Award for his Button Poetry book Birthright.
Sejal Shah was interviewed by Valerie Boyd for the November issue of Creative Nonfiction.
Chris Santiago was featured in the Fall 2021 issue of Copper Nickel.
Sejal Shah and Shebani Rao’s illustrated music playlist, "Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration," was published in Literary Hub.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was excerpted by Guernica.
Franny Choi read her poem “Turing Test_Love” for Ours Poetica's Youtube channel.
Jai Dulani’s manuscript Language We Fall Through was selected as a finalist for Kelsey Street Press’ first QTBIPOC poetry prize.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s essay, “Writing an Ordinary Existence,” was published by Catapult.
J. Mae Barizo’s book Tender Machines will be published by Tupelo Press.
Eugenia Leigh’s poem “The Children of Lions” was selected as The Yale Review’s Poem of the Week.
Melody S. Gee’s poetry chapbook The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat was the runner-up in Driftwood Press’ Adrift Chapbook contest.
Muriel Leung’s new essay “Erasure in Three Acts” was published by the Poetry Foundation.
Kyle Lucia Wu was interviewed by Jen Lue for Bomb Magazine.
Mayukh Sen’s forthcoming debut nonfiction book Taste Makers was excerpted in The New Yorker, for a four-part food column based on the book.
Jai Dulani had four poems published by The Rumpus.
October 2021
Lindsay Choi’s book Transverse was published by Future Poems.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was featured in NPR's "November Book-Ahead: What We're Excited To Read Next Month."
Karissa Chen's essay will be included in the forthcoming Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves, edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile.
Rajiv Mohabir was interviewed on his upcoming memoir Antiman and his poetry collection Cutlish by The Rumpus.
Matthew Salesses’ book Craft in the Real World was featured in “How the Hell Do We Fix the Creative Writing Workshop?” in The Nation.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s collaboration with Gabrielle Bates, “So We Must Meet Apart,” was featured in the November issue of Poetry Magazine.
Ina Cariño was selected as one of the winners of the 2020 and 2021 Discovery Poetry Contest by 92Y Poetry.
Craig Santos Perez’s poem, “Love in a Time of Climate Change,” was chosen by Kwame Dawes to be featured in the American Life in Poetry project.
Monica Ong’s poem, “The Way of Karma,” was published in the November issue of Scientific American.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was selected as one of the Best Books of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar.
Franny Choi’s essay, “Imitation Games,” was published by Gulf Coast.
Mayukh Sen curated MAYUKH SEN SELECTS for The Metrograph, a series of four films that inspired his upcoming nonfiction book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America.
E.J. Koh was featured as a guest on The Poetry Magazine Podcast to talk about the untranslatability of Han.
Rammel Chan’s short story “Tourists” was published in the 2020 edition of The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Jean Chen Ho’s new novel Fiona and Jane was reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly.
Shelley Wong, Chen Chen, Monica Youn, Monica Sok, Paul Tran, Jay Deshpande, Sally Wen Mao, and Arthur Sze were featured in The Best of American Poetry series for 2021.
Shruti Swami talked about her new novel The Archer with Daniel Handler as a part of Book Passage’s “Conversations with Authors” series on Youtube.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was selected as one of The 25 Indie Next Great Reads for November by the American Bookseller’s Association.
Rajesh Parameswaran’s essay “I Was a Lifelong Vegetarian. I Decided to Taste What I Was Missing” was published by Bon Appétit.
Patrick Rosal’s new book The Last Thing was featured as a Poetry Pick for People Magazine.
Jean Chen Ho’s piece “Can posting a thirst trap on Instagram help you process grief after unspeakable loss?” was published by the LA Times as a part of Image issue 5.
Victoria Chang’s memoir Dear Memory was featured in an article by NPR.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel Win Me Something was excerpted on The Rumpus.
Abeer Hoque’s essay “A Freelancer Talks Money and Writing” was published on Catapult.
E.J. Koh had two of her poems published in Poetry Magazine’s 2021 October issue.
Kazim Ali’s book The Citadel of Whispers was just released as a part of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
Grace Talusan, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sarah Gambito, Paolo Javier, and Gina Apostol each had writings featured in CLMP’s “A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2021”.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down the Towers” was nominated for Best of the Net by Southeast Review.
Hyejung Kook’s poem “Self-Portrait as Ghost” was published in Bear Review.
George Abraham’s essay “The Im/possibility of Being a Queer Palestinian in America” was published by Them.
Jen Lue and Katie Yee were selected as two of the 2021 Center for Fiction’s Emerging Writers Fellows.
September 2021
EJ Koh’s poem “American Han” was published in Poetry Magazine’s October 2021 issue.
Don Mee Choi won a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship.
George Abraham’s essay “Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse” was published in Guernica Magazine.
Karen An-hwei Lee's collaborative prose piece "Souvenirs” with Andrew Colarusso is now available for pre-order from Baobab Press.
Porochista Khakpour interviewed Asali Solomon on her new novel The Days of Afrekete in Bookforum.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “A Working Theory of Eyes” from West Trestle Review was nominated for Sundress Pub’s Best of the Net.
Cathy Linh Che’s poem “December 3, 1975” was published in The Nation.
Sandra Lim’s poetry collection “The Curious Thing” was reviewed by Aria Aber in the LA Review of Books.
Jennifer Chang’s poems “Time, Rampant and Flourishing” and “The Lonely Humans” were published in Yale Review.
Hazem Fahmy published a book review on Andrea Abi-Karam’s poetry collection “Villainy” in the LA Review of Books.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Jane Wong, and Shelley Wong were selected as winners and finalists for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for women creatives.
Monique Truong was selected as a finalist for Longwood University’s 2021 Jon Dos Passos Prize, which recognizes the country’s “most talented but under-appreciated writers.”
Melody S. Gee published book reviews on Ly Tran’s “House of Sticks” and Michelle Zauner’s “Crying in H-Mart” in Commonweal Magazine.
Monica Youn’s poem “Leave” was published in Poem-a-Day.
Craig Santos Perez was recognized in the 2021 Grist 50 “Fixers,” a list that celebrates emerging climate leaders. His eco-poetry was also featured in a collaborative music project, “Love Poems in the Time of Climate Change.”
Prageeta Sharma’s poem “Widowing” was published in Yale Review.
Matthew Salesses was featured in write-minded’s podcast episode, “Craft Is Never Neutral,” and interviewed by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner.
Ocean Vuong was interviewed by E. Alex Jung in Fantastic Man on his upcoming poetry collection, “Time is a Mother.”
Nawaaz Ahmed was interviewed by Kavita Das on his debut novel Radiant Fugitives.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Su Cho in a Poetry Foundation podcast about her poem “My Whole Life I Was Trained to Deny Myself” from the September issue of Poetry.
Mai Der Vang’s second poetry collection “Yellow Rain” was published by Graywolf Press. She was also interviewed in Electric Literature, Poetry Foundation, and The Rumpus.
Victoria Chang's forthcoming memoir Dear Memory was reviewed by Mandana Chaffa for the Colorado Review.
Monica Ong’s visual poetry piece “The Way of Milk” was published in Foundation.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “The Fox From ‘The Fable of the Fox and the Weasel’ by Benjamin Larnell,” “Midwinter,” and “Quarrystone” were published in Plume.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “All You Have to Do is Die,” from the collection “Writing the Uncanny,” was featured in The Paris Review.
Gowri Koneswaran received a 2021 Tanne Foundation Award.
Chen Chen was interviewed in Poetry Foundation’s podcast Poetry Off the Shelf.
Jackie Wang’s poetry collection “The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void” was long-listed for the 2021 National Book Awards for poetry.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poetry collection “Cutlish” was published from Four Way Books. He was also interviewed in Full Stop magazine about his writing process.
Cathy Park Hong was featured on the front cover of TIME’s Top 100 Most Influential People issue. Her article on the organization Stop AAPI Hate was also featured in the issue.
Sandra Lim was interviewed in McSweeney’s about her forthcoming poetry collection “The Curious Thing.”
Jennifer Chang’s poem “The Lonely Humans” was published in American Poetry Review.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s “Radiant Fugitives” was excerpted in a Mint Lounge.
Craig Santos Perez’s poems “Summer Solstice Sonnet During the Pandemic” and “Winter Solstice Sonnet During the Pandemic” were published in Hopkins Review’s special sonnet issue.
Patrick Rosal’s poem “When Prince was Filipino” was published in American Poetry Review.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s illustrations were featured in “Looking: Large and Small,” a collaborative visual prose piece with Jessica J. Lee and published by The National Writers Centre and The Willowherb Review.
Danny Thanh Nguyen’s essay “My Leather and Whips Don’t Make Me Masculine” was published in them.
E.J. Koh’s 2020 debut memoir The Magical Language of Others won the Washington State Book Award for Biography/Memoir.
George Abraham’s debut poetry collection “Birthright” won the 2021 Arab American Book Award’s George Ellenborgen poetry prize.
Steven Duong’s poem “Good Dog” was published in Chen Chen’s Twitter journal the lickety~split.
Sandra Lim, Rajiv Mohabir, Patrick Rosal, and Mai Der Vang’s poetry collections were all featured in Lantern Review’s Fresh Books for Fall 2021 List.
Patrick Rosal’s forthcoming poetry collection The Last Thing is now available for pre-order from Persea Books.
Monica Ong was interviewed in Buddhability on her visual poetry, creative resistance, and relationship to Buddhism.
George Abraham’s poem “Taking Back Jerusalem” was published in World Literature Today.
Shruti Swamy’s novel The Archer was reviewed in Buzzfeed News and NPR Books.
Moeko Fujii’s essay “Fake Plants” was published in Orion Magazine.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poetry collection “Cutlish” was featured in Lambda Literary’s most anticipated LGBTQIA+ literature list for September and was reviewed in Library Journal.
Eugenia Leigh’s poems “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Han (한 / 恨)” and “My Whole Life I was Trained to Deny Myself” were published in Poetry Foundation.
Kien Lam’s debut book Extinction Theory was selected by the National Poetry Series for publication by University of Georgia Press.
Shelley Wong’s poems “The Allergy Test,” “Pursuit,” and “Beach Date with End of the Alphabet Game” were published in The Offing.
Craig Santos Perez was featured in Yale Climate Connections’ radio program.
George Abraham was interviewed in a VS Podcast with Franny Choi and Danez Smith.
E.J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s translation of Yi Won’s “The World’s Lightest Motorcycle” is now available for pre-order from Zephyr Press.
August 2021
Franny Choi’s lyric essay “BLADE RUNNER (1982)” was published in Stillpoint Magazine.
Karen Gu’s essay “Work / Life Balance” was published in The Margins.
Chris Santiago’s poems “States & Capitals,” “The Third Anniversary of Your Mother’s Death,” “Poem with Lines from Doug Manuel,” and “New Classmate” were published in The Adroit Journal.
Bich Minh Nguyen’s essay, “The Chair Is a Pretty Accurate Portrayal of What It's Like to Be a Woman Professor of Color. That's Why It Can Be Painful to Watch” was published in TIME.
Mai Der Vang’s poem “Disfigures” was published in The Adroit Journal.
Matthew Salesses was interviewed in LitHub and Poets & Writers about his book Craft in the Real World.
Annie Trinh’s short fiction piece “The Language of Melons” was published in Joyland Magazine.
Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties was reviewed in VOANews Cambodia.
Margaret Rhee’s poetry manuscript Reclamation or My Body Instead was a finalist for Kelsey Street Press’s first QTBIPOC poetry prize.
Kazim Ali’s essay “Fall 2011: A Journal” was published in Air/Light Magazine, which also features an interview regarding his new memoir, “Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water.”
Tamiko Beyer’s essay “Poems Are Only Mine to Give Away (Part II)” was published in Poetry Foundation.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel Radiant Fugitives was featured in Poets & Writers’ “Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin” feature.
E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others was featured in Book Riot’s list of “10 Genre-Defying Memoirs You Need to Read.”
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello & E.J. Koh were featured in Mia You’s essay in Poetry Foundation for translating Zephyr Press’s forthcoming Korean title The World’s Lightest Motorcycle by Yi Won.
Joshua Nguyen’s poetry collection Come Clean is now available for pre-order from University of Wisconsin Press.
Karen An-hwei Lee’s was interviewed by Slant Books about her poetry collection Rose is a Verb.
Kyle Lucia Wu’s debut novel Win Me Something was reviewed by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and featured in Good Housekeeping’s 25 New Fall Books You Have to Read This Season list.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “A little wildness” was published in Wellcome Collection.
Rohan Chhetri was interviewed byTupelo Quarterly about his upcoming poetry collection Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful.
Matthew Salesses’ book Craft and the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping was featured in The Millions’ Top Ten List for July.
Monica Sok’s poem “ABC for Refugees” was reviewed by Emily Yoon in The Sewanee Review.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel Radiant Fugitives was reviewed in The Atlantic.
Vidhu Aggarwal was interviewed in Medium on her poetry collection Daughter Isotope.
Ligaya Mishan’s article “The Asian Pop Stars Taking Center Stage” and “The March of the Karens” was published in The New York Times.
Oliver de la Paz was interviewed in The Rumpus.
Sabina Murray was interviewed in Literary Hub on her novel The Human Zoo.
Troy Osaki’s poem “In the Months Before My Beloved Is Tagged a Terrorist” was published in The Margins.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Tiana Nobile were interviewed for “Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence” in Catapult.
Monica Ong’s visual poetry series Planetaria was featured in Hyperallergic.
Christine Shan Shan Hou’s interview “The Poetics of Being Seen” with Elaine Khan was featured in Harpers Bazaar.
Porochista Khakpour’s ode to Stephen Dixon was excerpted in The Millions and featured in Mcsweeney’s Issue 63.
Kimberly Alidio’s poem “a feeling has passed before a charted present” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s novel Radiant Fugitives was published by Counterpoint Press.
Danny Thanh Nguyen’s essay “‘Anthony Veasna So’s Stories of a Generation Will Live Long After His Death” was published in GQ Magazine.
Dan Lau’s poem “XX Judgement” was published in Poem-a-Day.
Karissa Chen’s essay “Tea Eggs Have Always Tasted Like Home” was published in Catapult.
July 2021
Rajiv Mohabir’s new poetry collection Cutlish is now available for preorder from Four Way Books.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Letter to a Bridge Made of Rope” was published in The New York Times.
Franny Choi’s poetry collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and essay collection Miss Cyborg earned a book deal with Jenny Xu at Mariner Books.
George Abraham’s excerpt from Paradise Lost, their first playwriting publication and in collaboration with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, was shared by Mosaic Theater Company.
Melody S. Gee’s essay “After Our Roots Have Thirsted” was published in Essay Daily.
Hua Hsu’s article “Anthony Veasna So Takes on Trauma, But Doesn’t Leave Out the Jokes” was published in The New Yorker.
Patrick Rosal’s poem “The Woman You Love Cuts Apples for You” was published in The New York Times.
Troy Osaki’s poems “On the Bolo Knife” and “Since Anchoring to San Francisco Docks, 1945” were published in PANK Magazine.
Kien Lam’s poems “Almost,” “Monstro,” and “Autopsy” were published in The Offing.
Kazim Ali’s memoir Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Pik-Shuen Fung was interviewed in The Rumpus for her novel Ghost Forest.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem “A Love Note” was published in Poem-a-Day.
Bonnie Chau’s prose piece “Now Spring, Now Fall” was published in Black Sun Lit.
Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, Eddie Kim, and Bethany Swann’s poetry were published in Lantern Review’s July 2021 issue.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders won Ohioana Library’s 2021 Book Award for nonfiction.
Margaret Rhee’s poem “The Year Before I Left For Mars” was published in Poem-a-Day.
R.A. Villanueva’s poem “Epithalamion, Ithaka” was commissioned as part of the UK podcast series, Bedtime Stories for the End of the World.
Nawaaz Ahmed, Peter Ho Davies, Pik-Shuen Fung, Mayukh Sen, Anthony Veasna So, Shruti Swamy, and Kyle Lucia Wu were all featured in The Millions’s “Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Review” list.
Shelley Wong’s poem “Pride Month” was featured in Queer Poem-a-Day podcast. Her poem “Open Season” was also part of SPACE’s 2021 Poetry Hotline.
Ina Cariño’s music piece “Salidummay” was published by Air/Light magazine.
Tiana Nobile was interviewed by EcoTheo Collective for her poetry collection, Cleave.
Jen Lue’s short story “Double Happiness” was published in Sepia Journal.
Wo Chan’s poem “the shoes” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Monica Ong’s cross-genre poems “Solstice Blessing” & “Diaspora Nova” were published in Poetry magazine.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s prose piece “More Politics Than Poetry” was published in Poetry magazine.
Hyejung Kook’s poem “Spring Coronal” was published in Poetry magazine.
George Abraham’s poem “Searching for a Palestinian Necropastoral (Eve)” was shared by Poem-a-Day.
June 2021
Paul Tran’s poem “Bioluminescence” was featured in The New Yorker.
Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir Antiman was reviewed in NPR Books, Brown Girl Magazine, and The Washington Post.
Chen Chen’s poem “The Galloping Thing” was featured in The Massachusetts Review.
Tiana Nobile’s debut poetry book Cleave was reviewed in The Rumpus.
Sarah Wang received the 2021–2022 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship.
Promiti Islam’s short fiction piece “The Salted Sea” was featured in The Margins.
Sahar Muradi’s poem "washee / was she" was selected and printed by the Center for Book Arts 2021 Broadside Reading Series. Her hybrid essay, "Ask Hafiz: A Migration Story Told Through Poetic Divination,” also won the 2021 Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize, which includes publication.
Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir Antiman was featured in Books are Magic’s “Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2021.”
Pik-Shuen Fung’s debut novel Ghost Forest was featured in The Boston Globe’s “Summer Reading 2021.”
Nawaaz Ahmed’s novel Radiant Fugitives received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
Monica Ong’s exhibition of visual poetry Planetaria is featured at the Institute Library of New Haven.
Hazem Fahmy’s poem “Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Hanae Jonas’s poem “Pastoral” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Sally Wen Mao’s essay “High-Rise Syndrome” was featured in The Believer.
Catherine Flora Con’s short story “Mother Root” was featured in Joyland.
Timothy Yu’s book Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Muriel Leung and Paisley Rekdal had their books featured in Lantern Review’s “An Asian American Poetry Companion: Must-Read Titles for Summer 2021.”
Ina Cariño won the 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.
Muriel Leung was interviewed about her book Imagine Us, The Swarm in Lambda Literary.
Ayesha Raees’s poem “All Along, I Laid, Halved” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s essay “Gifts from the Trees” was featured in The Paris Review.
Promiti Islam’s essay “A Gay Gaye Holud for Two Bengali Brides” was featured in Catapult.
May 2021
Chen Chen’s poem “i love you to the moon &” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
George Abraham’s poem “Searching for A Palestinian After” was featured in The Nation.
Paul Tran’s poem “Hypothesis” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Kyle Lucia Wu, Anthony Veasna So, Matthew Salesses, Matthew Olzmann, Shruti Swamy, K-Ming Chang, Pik-Shuen Fung, Kazim Ali, Tamiko Beyer, Jane Wong, Mai Der Vang, Rajiv Mohabir, Jackie Wang, Larissa Pham, and Sejal Shah were featured in The Rumpus’s “What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month.”
Chen Chen and T Kira Madden were featured in NPR’s “Engaging With Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month: A Reading List.”
Jane Wong’s poem “The Waiting” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Kazim Ali’s poem “new year / dec 30, 2020” was featured in Wildness Journal.
Lan Samantha Chang is the recipient of a Fall 2021 Berlin Prize from The American Academy in Berlin.
Rick Barot’s poem “Moving the Bones” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Seema Yasmin, Jackie Wang, and Muriel Leung had their poetry books featured in “2021 Poetry for the Rest of Us” in Ms Magazine.
Muriel Leung’s poetry book Imagine Us, The Swarm is featured in “May’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature” at Lambda Literary.
Mai Der Vang’s poetry book Yellow Rain is forthcoming with Graywolf Press.
Cathy Park Hong, Kimiko Hahn, Meng Jin, and Sejal Shah are featured in “20 New Asian American Books to Read Right Now” in Electric Lit.
Paul Tran read their poem “The Cave” on 92Y’s podcast Read By.
April 2021
Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern is forthcoming with Riverhead Books.
Jessica Abughattas has three poems featured in Miracle Monocle.
Chen Chen’s craft book In Cahoots With the Rabbit God is forthcoming with Noemi Press.
Janine Joseph’s poem “My Chiropractor Gives Me a Name” was featured in The Rumpus.
E.J. Koh’s literary guide to Seattle was featured in Poets & Writers.
Tiana Nobile’s poem “/ˈmīɡrənt/” was featured in Poetry Daily.
Rajiv Mohabir’s collaborative chapbook with Rushi Vyas Between Us, Not Half a Saint was published by Gasher Journal.
Alicia Fuhrman’s story “Sky Parade” won first prize in the 2020 Hackney Literary Awards National Competition.
Gowri Koneswaran and Aurora Masum-Javed received 2021 MCW Scholarships to attend the Medocino Coast Writers’ Conference.
Don Mee Choi and Sandra Lim received Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in Poetry.
Pik-Shuen Fung’s forthcoming debut novel Ghost Forest received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
Jess Rizkallah’s poetry book the magic my body becomes was featured in Electric Literature’s article “7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women.”
Tiana Nobile’s poetry book CLEAVE and Tamiko Beyer’s poetry book Last Days were featured in “What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry” in The Rumpus.
E. J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others and Ed Lin’s novel David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College were featured in “12 of the Best Books by Writers of the Asian Diaspora” in Oprah Daily.
Jess Rizkallah’s poetry book the magic my body becomes was featured in “7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women” in Electric Literature.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Like a Dish Rag Soaked in Bleach” was featured in The Rumpus.
March 2021
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Ode to Sitting in a Booth” was featured in Poem-a-day.
Cathy Linh Che’s poem “‘I love the smell of napalm…’ a golden shovel” was featured in The New Republic.
Shruti Swamy’s short story collection A House is a Body was reviewed in The Adroit Journal.
Aria Aber’s poem “Dirt and Light” was featured in The New Yorker.
Timothy Yu edited The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry.
Muriel Leung was interviewed on Sundress Blog about her forthcoming book Imagine Us, The Swarm.
Jan-Henry Gray and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco received honorable mentions in the 2021 AAAS Book Awards in Poetry and Prose.
Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s Colonize Me won the 2021 AAAS Book Award in Poetry.
Paisley Rekdal was interviewed by Victoria Chang in Tupelo Quarterly.
Kimberly Alidio’s poetry book : once teeth bones coral : is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Poetry.
K-Ming Chang’s novel Bestiary is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Fiction.
George Abraham’s poetry book Birthright is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Bisexual Poetry.
Jen Lue’s short story "Wants” was featured in Joyland Magazine.
Jai Dulani reviewed We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics in Autostraddle.
Michelle Lin and Kazumi Chin’s podcast We Won’t Move: A Living Archive with Kearny Street Workshop released its first episode.
Kazim Ali’s nonfiction book Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water was published by Milkweed.
Jean Chen Ho’s debut short story collection Fiona and Jane is coming out with Viking Books on November 9, 2021.
Gowri Koneswaran’s hybrid piece “Take Your Impunity” was featured in ADI Magazine.
Julie Ae Kim’s essay “Political Solidarity Is A Solution to Attacks Against Asian Americans” was featured in Harper’s Bazaar.
Ina Cariño’s poetry collection Feast won the 2021 Alice James Award.
Rajiv Mohabir’s forthcoming memoir Antiman was featured in The Boston Globe.
Jessica Abughattas was interviewed about her debut collection Strip in Rogue Agent Journal.
Joshua Nguyen won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for his debut poetry manuscript Come Clean, out in the fall of 2021 with University of Wisconsin Press.
K-Ming Chang’s flash fiction story “Phantom” was featured in Hobart.
February 2021
Margaret Rhee’s short story “Library of Lost Poetry Machines” was featured in The Margins’ #WeToo Series.
Jessica Abughattas was interviewed in THE BOILER.
Jean Chen Ho’s essay “Bling Empire and the Energizing Potential of Asian-American Mediocrity” was featured in Harper’s Bazaar.
Gina Apostol’s essay “A Speech of One’s Own” was featured in Evergreen Review and made the foreword to Ulirat: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines.
Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony was reviewed in Hyperallergic.
Gowri Koneswaran’s lyric essay “The Preferred Terms are Mine” was featured in The Margins’ #WeToo Series.
George Abraham has three poems featured in The Journal.
Shruti Swamy’s book A House is a Body was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E. J. Koh’s translations of Yi Won were published in Denver Quarterly.
Wo Chan’s debut poetry book Togetherness won the 2021 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and will be published in 2022.
William Pei Shih’s short story “The Food Photographer” was featured in wildness journal.
Todd Kaneko’s “All the Things That Make Heaven and Earth” was featured in Poetry Daily.
Janine Joseph’s poem “Love in the Time of Vertigo” was featured in Mumber Mag.
Paul Tran’s poem “Provenance” was featured in The Nation.
Joshua Nguyen’s micro-chapbook American Lục Bát for My Mother is forthcoming with Bull City Press.
Jenny Xie’s short story “Roadkill” was featured in Joyland Magazine.
Oliver de la Paz, Sally Wen Mao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Matthew Olzmann, and Paul Tran received 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships.
Rohan Chhetri received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation from the Nepali of The Dust Draws Its Face on the Wind: Essential Poems by Avinash Shrestha.
Eugenia Leigh’s poem “My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself” was featured in The Nation.
Jasmine Sawers’s flash piece “Fairest” was featured in HOOT Review.
K-Ming Chang and Matthew Salesses have their novels Bestiary and Disappear, Doppelgänger, Disappear on the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Longlist!
Chen Chen co-created a poetry and dance collaboration with Pao Arts Center in Chinatown Boston.
January 2021
Franny Choi has a review of Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart in The Georgia Review.
Seema Yasmin’s debut poetry collection If God is a Virus is forthcoming with Haymarket Books.
George Abraham’s essay “Re-Embodying Palestinian Memory” was featured in Public Books.
Cathy Park Hong and Victoria Chang are finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards for their books Minor Feelings and Obit.
Hala Alyan’s novel The Arsonists’ City received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
Matthew Salesses has an excerpt from his book Craft in the Real World featured in No Tokens Journal.
Eugenia Leigh’s poem “How the Dung Beetle Finds its Way Home” was featured in Ploughshares.
Rajiv Mohabir’s hybrid memoir Antiman is forthcoming with Restless Books.
Matthew Olzmann’s poems “Before We Go Any Further I Want to Publicly Acknowledge” and “Kummerspeck” were featured in Body Literature.
Gina Apostol’s novel The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata was reviewed in The New York Times.
Jessica Abughattas was interviewed in The Adroit Journal.
E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others received the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
Hala Alyan’s poem “Object Permanence” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Shruti Swamy, EJ Koh, Meng Jin, Victoria Chang, and Craig Santos Perez were nominated to the 2021 PEN America Literary Award Longlists.
Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony received a four star review in The Harvard Crimson.
Larissa Pham and Hala Alyan were featured in Electric Literature’s article “44 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2021.”
Matthew Salesses, Larissa Pham, Hala Alyan, Muriel Leung, and Anthony Veasna So were featured in Lithub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021.”
Eugenia Leigh’s poem “June Fourteenth” was featured in Crab Creek Review.
Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “The New Decade” was featured in Poem-a-Day.
Aria Aber’s poem “An Essay on Loss” was featured in Poetry Magazine.
Pik-Shuen Fung’s forthcoming novel Ghost Forest was featured in Electric Literature’s “27 Debuts to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2021.”