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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 2022

Neil Aitken has three poems, “Ritual,” “Crossing Over,” and “Farewell” in Tupelo Quarterly.

Bushra Rehman’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was named a must-read book of December by the Chicago Review of Books, and one of 10 noteworthy books for December by the Washington Post. It was also included in “10 Books to Cozy Up With This December” by E News. 

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was included in Glamour Magazine’s 40 best books of 2022 roundup. 

Janine Joseph’s forthcoming collection Decade of the Brain was included in the Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin feature of Poets & Writers. 

Katy Hargett-Hsu’s poem “Internal Dissident” won the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize and was published in issue 102 of Crazyhorse. 

Katy Hargett-Hsu’s "Petition for Naturalization" was published in issue 45 of Arts & Letters.

George Abraham’s poem “An American Surrealism” was nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize by Foglifter. 

Philip Metres’ poem “To Make of Hell a Heaven” was published by America Magazine, and “The Poetics of Justice” was published in The Writer’s Chronicle. 

Philip Metres’ essay “Lost in the Underground Cathedral” was published on World Literature Today. 

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Electric Literature about her debut novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion. 

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Shondaland. 

Bushra Rehman’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was named one of Literary Hub’s “17 New Books to Invigorate Your December Reading,” one of Buzzfeed’s best book releases for December, and was a notable December release on LGBTQ Reads. It was also recommended by Autostraddle. 

Melody S. Gee’s book review of Tsering Yangzom Lama’s novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies was published in Commonweal Magazine.

Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense, Solmaz Sharif’s Customs, Fatimah Asghar’s When We Were Sisters, Bushra Rehman’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling, Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother, K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want, Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane, Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, and Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On were included in NPR’s Books We Love list. 

Margaret Rhee’s essay “Blue Collar/White Collar” was published on The Offing.

Wo Chan’s collection Togetherness was reviewed on Soapberry Review. 

Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay “Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative” was featured on Literary Hub. 

W. Todd Kaneko’s essay “The Night of Skywalkers” was nominated for a Pushcart prize by Passages North.

Iris A. Law was nominated for a Pushcart prize by the New England Review for the poem “Experimental Method: Tense Fluidity (Is/Was)” 

Rajiv Mohabir was nominated for a Pushcart prize by Honey Literary for the poem “Hari ne apnā āp chipāyā.” 

Sally Wen Mao’s short story “Hot Spring Ghost Story” was published on The Offing. 

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem “the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing” was published in the Nation Magazine. 

Fatimah Asghar’s book When We Were Sisters was featured on The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2022 So Far.”

Bushra Rehman’s novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was reviewed in the New York Times. 

Bushra Rehman’s novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion was included in the Los Angeles Times “Top 10 books to Add to Your Reading List in December.”

November 2022

Rajiv Mohabir had two poems, “Hari ne apnā āp chipāyā” and “tīrath meñ to sab pānī hai,” published on Honey Literary.

Lisa Lee was awarded the Marianne Russo Emerging Writer Award for a novel-in-progress from Key West Literary Seminar. Lisa Lee was also awarded 2023 residencies from Tin House and Hedgebrook.

Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on: Poems, Ocean Vuong’s Time Is A Mother, Fatimah Asghar’s WHEN WE WERE SISTERS, and Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was featured in TIME magazine’s “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022.”

K-ming Chang’s Gods of Want and Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s Four Treasures of the Sky was featured in The New York Times Magazine’s “100 Notable Books of 2022.”

Anuradha Bhowmik’s book Brown Girl Chromatography was reviewed by the California Review of Books. 

William Pei Shih’s short story “Burying Big Treasure'' was published in the issue 102 of Crazyhorse. 

George Abraham’s poem “Unarcheology of ‘Father’” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Lee Herrick was appointed as California’s 10th Poet Laureate.

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet Traveling Between Apartment Rentals” was published in the New York Times Magazine. 

Catherine Con Morse earned a 2-book deal with Phoebe Yeh at Crown Books for Young Readers for the novel The Notes. 

Christy NaMee Eriksen’s essays during Fat Bear Week were published by The Anchorage Daily News. 

Min Kang’s chapbook “darkly + completely” was released by Essay Press. 

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “I Was Wrong About So Much” was published on The Atlantic.

Timothy Yu’s essay “Poetry in Conversation with Itself” was published on POETRY. 

Jee Leong Koh’s collection Inspector, Inspector was released by Carcanet Press. 

Pichchenda Bao poems, “My Mother Stands Behind Her Father” and “Starlings in the United States,” and Hyejung Kook’s poem “Aubade with Bread and Water” were published in The Ilanot Review. Pichchenda and Hyejung were also part of the “Round Table: In the Wake of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade” featured in this issue of The Ilanot Review. 

Hyejung Kook’s poem “Quicksilver” was published on The Coop: The Poetry Cooperative.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Suppose You Were a Bad Ghost” was published on The Common. 

W. Todd Kaneko's three micro-essays, “Side Quests,” “The Cower Bug,” and “Different Kinds of Ghouls” was published on Sweet. 

Chen Chen was interviewed by Misha Ponnuraju about “Your Emergency Contact is Experiencing an Emergency” for Foglifter Press. 

Siqi Liu’s short story “Asymptote” was published in Issue 69 of McSweeney’s. 

Jessica Abughattas’ poem “First Marriage” was published by Thrush Poetry Journal. 

Jenny Xie’s short story “Model Home” was published by Catapult. 

Tariq Luthun was interviewed on the Poetry Magazine podcast. 

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poems “Oedema” and “Body Mass Index” were published in The Ilanot Review. 

Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “asian american poem at 21” was published in Issue #8 of Martha St. Zine. 

Kien Lam’s book Extinction Theory was reviewed on Soapberry Review. 

October 2022

Philip Metres’ essay “The Other World, and This One” was published by Image Journal.

Joseph O. Legaspi’s poem “Longyi, a Lyric” was featured on The Common. 

Jenny Xie was interviewed by Paul Hlava Ceballos for Poetry Northwest.

Franny Choi was interviewed on NPR Morning Edition about The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. 

Kien Lam reads the poem “Anagrams” from his poetry collection, Extinction Theory, for Poets & Writers. 

Tariq Luthun’s poem “I Want to Die” and Troy Osaki’s poems “Placed Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time,” “& Somehow, My Grandpa Finds Places to Sleep after Japan Invades,” and “Despedida for the Last Despedida” were published in POETRY.

Franny Choi was interviewed by Poets & Writers.

Franny Choi’s collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On was released from Ecco.

George Abraham has two poems, “An American Surrealism” and “Realisms,” published in Volume 7, Issue 2 of Foglifter.

Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem “the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing” was published in The Nation.

W. Todd Kaneko’s poems “Elegy Full of Animal Parts” and “Black Hole” were published in Issue 9 of Bear Review.

Franny Choi’s poem “Disaster Means ‘Without a Star’” from her collection, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, was featured in The Atlantic.

Chen Chen’s collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced and Emergency was included in The Guardian’s The Best Recent Poetry Roundup. 

Marianne Chan’s poem “The Baby Refuses,” a conversation with Chen Chen, and a conversation between Amanda Moore and Shelley Wong is featured in Issue 43 of The Adroit Journal. 

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Adiós, Miami” was published in Volume 25 of the Water~Stone Review.

Cathy Linh Che and William Pei Shih have been longlisted for the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize.

Laurel Chen’s poem “Greensickness” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Franny Choi’s poem “Look” was featured on The Atlantic. 

Oliver de la Paz was interviewed by Boiler Journal. 

Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “The Day My Father Has a Stroke I Have a Filling” and Chris Santiago’s poem “Many Worlds” were featured in Issue 90 of The Cortland Review. Jenny Xie’s collection The Rupture Tense was also reviewed in this issue. 

Fatimah Asghar’s debut novel When We Were Sisters was released from One World Books. 

Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet 55,” from the Spring 22 Issue of The Hopkins Review, was featured as Poem of the Day on Poetry Daily 365.

Jessica Abughatta’s poem “Radical Surgeon of My Own Life” was published on Guernica. 

Ryan Lee Wong was interviewed by Kyle Lucia Wu about his book Which Side Are You On for BOMB Magazine.

Fatimah Asghar’s book When We Were Sisters was included in the Los Angeles Time’s roundup “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in October.”

Kien Lam’s collection Extinction Theory was released by UGA Press.

Shelley Wong’s poem “Headlands 1” was published in Volume 44, Number 5 of Kenyon Review.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Forest of Beginnings” was published by Mn Artists. 

Wo Chan’s poem “Wonder Wheel” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.

Jasmine Sawers’ book The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore was released from Rose Metal Press. It was reviewed in the New York Times.

Jasmine Sawers’ story "Tiny Little Goat," won the Fractured Lit Reprint Prize. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poems, “Between the Lines” and “To All the TSA Agents Who’ve Patted Me Down” and Ina Cariño’s poems, “Litanies for the Dead” and “Deluge” were published in Lantern Review Issue 10. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “One Good Memory” was featured on Rattle. 

Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “For Who Spring Is No Laughing Matter,” received a Best of the Net Nomination from Blackbird. 

Anuradha Bhowmik’s book, Brown Girl Chromatography, is available to order.

Sun Yung Shin’s picture book Where We Come From, illustrated by Dion MBD and co-authored by Diane Wilson (Dakota), Shannon Gibney, and John Coy, was published by CarolRhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group.

Sun Yung Shin’s fourth poetry collection The Wet Hex was published by Coffee House Press.

Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s book Four Treasures of the Sky has been longlisted for the American Library Association's 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction. 

Jenny Xie is a 2022 National Book Award finalist in poetry for her poetry book, The Rupture Tense.

E.J. Koh received the 2022 Artistic Achievement Award by the Korean American Coalition of Washington at the KAC National Convention & Gala.

Bobuq Sayed’s essay “Must a Novel Take a Side?” was published by Liminal.

Sejal Shah was interviewed alongside Kirin Makker for The Common.

Matthew Salesses’s forthcoming book The Sense of Wonder received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. 

Seema Yasmin’s book What The Fact?: Finding The Truth In All The Noise was released from Simon & Schuster. It received a starred review from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. 

Chen Chen was interviewed by Gasher.

Jessica Abughattas, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Jennifer S. Cheng, Franny Choi, Hyejung Kook, Amy Lam, Iris A. Law, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Angie Sijun Lou, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Aurora Masum-Javed, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Michelle Peñaloza, Angela Peñaredondo, Sun Yung Shin, Monica Sok, Paul Tran, Jane Wong, and Jessica Yuan contributed to the anthology They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, published by Blue Oak Press.

Ryan Lee Wong’s essay “The Longest Retreat: Ryan Lee Wong on the Intersection of Writing, Meditating, and Community” was published on Literary Hub.

Ryan Lee Wong’s debut novel Which Side Are You On is out from Catapult Books. 

Iris A. Law has two poems, “Experimental Method: Tense Fluidity (Is / Was)” and “My Father at Breakfast,” published in Volume 43, No. 3 of the New England Review. 

William Pei Shih was interviewed about his story “Necessary Evils,” by The Southern Review.

Iris A. Law’s poem “Who Were You When You Were Not Haunted” was published by West Trestle Review. 

W. Todd Kaneko’s craft essay “The Poet’s Moveset” was published in DMQ Review.

Monica Youn’s forthcoming collection From From: Poems is available for pre-order. 

Aria Aber, Cathy Linh Che, and Ocean Vuong’s poems were included in the Best American Poetry 2022.  

Sarah Kay’s performance of her poem “Orange” at Gray Area was recently featured on Button Poetry.

Ina Cariño’s poem “Maybe a Ghost Carried Me Here” was recently published in Issue 10 of Bath Magg.

Chen Chen has three poems and an interview published in Issue 10 of Bath Magg.

Jenny Xie’s poem “A Poem by Jenny Xie” from her collection, The Rupture Tense, was excerpted on Literary Hub. 

Wo Chan’s poem “performing miss america at bushwig 2018, then chilling.” from their collection Togetherness was excerpted on Literary Hub. 

Ryan Lee Wong’s forthcoming novel Which Side Are You On was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. 

Chen Chen was recently interviewed about his new collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Electric Literature.

Asha Thanki’s essay “Bad Friend” was published by The Fourth River.

Iris A. Law’s poem “Homecoming” was featured in AAWW: The Margins.

September 2022

K-Ming Chang’s short story “Sunkiller” was published on Catapult.

Bushra Rehman’s forthcoming debut novel, “Roses in the Mouth of a Lion,” received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. 

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival” and Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “For Who Spring Is No Laughing Matter” were both nominated for Blackbird’s Best of the Net. 

Chen Chen was interviewed by PEN about his new collection “Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency.”

MT Vallarta’s poem, “In Memoriam,” was published on Madwomen in the Attic, where they are also the featured writer of the month.

Ina Cariño’s poem “names are spells, & I have four—” and Jaz Sufi’s poem “Oasis” were both nominated for the Diode Poetry Journal 2023 Best of the Net anthology. 

Two of Chen Chen’s poems from his collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency were featured on Allium. 

Chen Chen’s collection Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Wo Chan’s Togetherness, and Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense were included in the Lantern Review’s list of An Asian American Poetry Companion: Cozy Books For Fall. 

Troy Osaki and Tariq Luthun have been announced as 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows by The Poetry Foundation. 

Sally Wen Mao’s poem “On Silk” was published by Granta. 

Cathy Linh Che’s poem “Fade In” was published in Issue 11 of The Yale Review. 

Chen Chen’s book received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. 

Pichchenda Bao’s poem “Starlings in the United States” was nominated for Best of the Net 2023 by The Ilanot Review. 

Wo Chan had three poems from their collection, Togetherness, featured on AAWW: The Margins. 

Alison Minami’s review of the play The Great Jheri Curl Debate was published on FPI. 

Muriel Leung’s poem “[Suppose my father awoke …]” was published in the New York Times Magazine. 

Fatimah Asghar’s forthcoming book, When We Were Sisters, has been longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for fiction. 

Meng Jin was interviewed by The Rumpus.

Pichchenda Bao’s poem “At The End of This Rope” was published by The Coop.

Jennifer S. Cheng was interviewed in Issue 8 of A Velvet Giant.

Janine Joseph’s poem “Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,” was featured as poem of the day for Poets.org. 

Jenny Xie’s second collection, The Rupture Tense, is out by Graywolf Press.

Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story "A Wedding in Multan, 1978” is included in this year’s Best Debut Short Stories 2022, out from Catapult. 

Wo Chan’s debut poetry collection, Togetherness, has been released by Nightboat Books. 

MT Vallarta was selected as a 2023 Roots. Wounds. Words fellow.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets.

Jenny Xie’s book, The Rupture Tense, was reviewed by The New York Times. 

Shelley Wong’s debut collection, As She Appears, from YesYes Books, and Jenny Xie’s second collection, The Rupture Tense, from Gray Wolf Press, have both been longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry. 

Sahar Muradi's debut collection, Octobers, was named as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and will be published in 2023 by University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Chen Chen’s second poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, was released from BOA Editions. 

Bobuq Sayed’s story and novel excerpt “The Prayer of Fugitives” was published in the Gulf Coast journal. 

Wo Chan’s reads their poem “Years Flow By Like Water” from the forthcoming collection, Togetherness, for Poets & Writers. 

Sumita Chakraborty was interviewed by Honey Literary about writing her debut poetry collection, Arrow. 

Carolyn Ho’s collection Blue: Xanh: Son: Language in Freefall! won the 2022 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in poetry.

Ina Cariño’s essay “The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land” was published by Lithub.

Victoria Cho has two essays included in the anthology Nonwhite and Woman, out from Woodhall Press. 

Bobuq Sayed co-edited the anthology Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia, published by Allen and Unwin. 

Jane Wong’s poem “Fruit” was recently published in the Kenyon Review. She will also begin as a Loghaven Artist-in-Residence.  

Philip Metres’s poem “Apocalypse Waltz” was published in the journal Crisis and Critique. Metres was also one of the sixty writers featured in Jenny Holzer's New York exhibition, “Speech Itself!”

Jenny Xie had two poems published in Issue 42 of the Adroit Journal. 

Christine Hou had three poems published in Issue 9 of Iterant Journal.

Chen Chen’s poem “Quintessense: the Quotidian” was published in Wildness by Platypus Press.

George Abraham’s poem “GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica” was published by Catapult.

Rachelle Cruz’s poem “Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital” was published in Strange Horizons. 

Mai Der Vang’s collection Yellow Rain and Truong Tran’s book Book of the Other: Small in Comparison both won a 2022 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

August 2022

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan reviewed Emi Yagi’s novel, Diary of a Void, for The Atlantic.

Joshua Nguyen’s book Come Clean won the 2021 Poetry Discovery Prize by the Writers League of Texas.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Oasis” was published by Diode Editions.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra was interviewed by The Adroit Journal about her chapbook Notes from the Birth Year.

Bushra Rehman was interviewed by Publishers Weekly about her upcoming book Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion.

Marianne Chan’s poem “Lakephrasis” was published in the Flyover Country issue of The Journal.

Angie Sijun Lou’s review of Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s collection Aerial Concave without Cloud was published in The Georgia Review.

Meng Jin was interviewed by The Boston Globe to speak on her collection Self-Portrait with Ghost.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman was featured in Lambda Literary’s “August’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature” list.

William Pei Shih’s short story “The Paris of China” was published in The Boston Review.

Chen Chen’s poem “A Favorite Room” was excerpted by The Rumpus for their Poetry Book Club.

Craig Santos Perez’s poem “thirteen ways of looking at a wildfire” was featured in a folio from Terrain.

Meng Jin’s book Self Portrait with Ghost was reviewed and featured in ABC Art’s monthly book column.

Troy Osaki and Tariq Luthun were selected as finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Hieu Minh Nguyen’s “The Understudy” was published by Poets.Org.

Diana Khoi Nguyen was interviewed by Surging Tide Magazine.

Rajiv Mohabir’s “Give Me A Boat That Can Carry Two” was published by Poets.org.

Franny Choi was a guest on Queers at the End of the World podcast.

July 2022

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Out of Research Into Reveries” was published by Poets.org.

Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency was reviewed by Indigo Carter for Medium.

Muriel Leung’s “If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear” was published by Guernica Magazine.

Jasmine Sawers was interviewed by Joel Coltharp for Smokelong Quarterly.

Muriel Leung was interviewed by Surging Tide Magazine.

Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities was featured as one of National Poetry Library’s Staff Summer Picks.

K-Ming Chang was interviewed by Yeenon Yu for Kundiman.

Rajiv Mohabir had two poems published in The Dodge.

Shelley Wong’s As She Appears was reviewed by Rhino Poetry.

Wo Chan’s poem “what do i make of my face / except” was published by Poetry Daily.

Chen Chen’s forthcoming book Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency was reviewed by The Poetry Question.

Todd W. Kaneko’s poems were included in the anthology Busy Griefs, Raw Towns.

K-Ming Chang’s book Gods of Want was reviewed by Alexandra Kleeman for The New York Times.

Margaret Rhee’s “The Year Before I Left For Mars” was featured as the “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Franny Choi’s “Comfort Poem” was recently featured by Poetry Daily.

K-Ming Chang was interviewed by Datebook to speak on her book Gods of Want.

Kien Lam’s poem “On Kindness” was published by American Poetry Review.

Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling and Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane were featured on NPR’s 2022 “Best Books” list.

June 2022

Leah Silvieus’ review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Thrust was published by Astra Magazine.

Rajiv Mohabir won the 2021 INDIE in LGBTQ+ Adult Nonfiction for his book Antiman.

Jaz Sufi’s poem “Litany to Protect Against Possession” was featured in SouthEast Review.

Chen Chen’s forthcoming book Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency was featured by Publisher Weekly as one of their Top 10 Poetry Collections for Fall 2022. 

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “Elegy Composed in the New York Botanical Garden” was featured by Poets.org.

Janine Joseph’s poem “Every Good Boy Does Fine” was published by The Arkansas International.

Tamiko Beyer won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry for her book Last Days.

Chen Chen’s poem “Elegy to Be Exhaled at Dusk” was republished in the anthology Queer Nature.

Monica Ong’s Planeteria had a feature written about it by Timothy Yu and published by the Poetry Foundation.

Margaret Rhee’s essay “On Resistance: The Feminist Legacy in Science Fiction Poetry” was published by Strange Horizons.

Pik-Shuen Fung was awarded the Amazon Canada First Novel prize.

Muriel Leung won the 2022 Four Quartets Prize, awarded by the Poetry Society of America.

Ploi Pirapokin’s essay “Here’s Your Grandchild” was published by Midnight Breakfast.

Chen Chen’s poem “I love you to the moon &” was featured by Poets.org.

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and E.J. Koh’s translation of Yi Won’s The World's Lightest Motorcycle was selected as a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation.

May 2022

Muriel Leung, for her collection Imagine Us, The Swarm, was awarded the 2022 Four Quartets Prize by the Poetry Society of America.

Franny Choi’s “Unlove Poem” was published in The American Poetry Review.

Sun Yung Shin’s forthcoming poetry collection The Wet Hex is now available for preorder from Coffee House Press.

Shelley Wong's As She Appears received a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Melody S. Gee is a recipient of a 2022 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award in creative nonfiction.

Patrick Rosal’s poem “Delanda Undone” was published by The American Poetry Review.

Chen Chen had three poems published in the Summer 2022 issue of Violet, Indigo, Blue, Etc.

Jean Chen Ho was included in a conversation published by Literary Hub.

Shelley Wong was featured on the Of Poetry podcast.

Franny Choi’s forthcoming book, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, now has a cover and is available for preorder.

Joseph O. Legaspi’s Threshold, Patrick Rosal’s The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others, and Jane Wong’s How to Not Be Afraid of Everything were included on The Strategist’s “22 Books to Read During AAPI Heritage Month, Recommended by AAPI Writers” list.

Mai Der Vang’s “Yellow Rain” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

Shelley Wong was interviewed by Ploughshares to speak about her book As She Appears.

Cathy Linh Che was interviewed by A4 to speak about Kundiman.

Patrick Rosal’s The Last Thing won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by Erika Meitner.

Shelley Wong’s debut collection As She appears is out now from YesYes Books.

Muriel Leung’s short story, “To Molt and To Love You,” was selected as a finalist in Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize.

Melody S. Gee’s book Each Crumbling House made the CLMP reading list for AAPI month.

Shelley Wong’s As She Appears was reviewed by Genevieve Walker for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Ocean Vuong has finished the script for the film adaptation of his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

Mai Der Vang’s “I Am The Whole Defense” was featured by Poets.org.

Tiana Nobile’s Cleave and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments were featured in Astrix Journal’s “9 AAPI Writers to Read in May 2022” list.

Shelley Wong was interviewed by Frontier Poetry.

April 2022

Hala Alyan’s “There is Nothing More Terrible Than Waiting for the Terrible” was published in Live in the Layers.

Paul Tran’s All The Flowers Kneeling, Jane Wong’s How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, Lee Choi’s Transverse, and Shelley Wong’s As She Appears were featured on Ms. Magazine’s “Poetry for the Rest of Us 2022” list.

Ina Cariño was awarded the George Bogin Memorial Award by the Poetry Society.

Leah Silvieus was interviewed by Hope Fischbach for Grist Journal.

Shelley Wong spoke about her book As She Appears on The Hive Poetry Collection. 

Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “Erotic Things” was published by The Margins.

Craig Santos Perez was given the George Garrett Award by AWP.

Joseph Legaspi’s poem “Amphibians” was published in the anthology Queer Nature.

Terisa Siagatonu was featured on KQED to speak about climate change and her writing.

Shelley Wong published a Writer's Notebook short essay on her poem "The Winter Forecast" in New England Review.

Rowan Hiyaso Bucchanan’s essay “Men Talk to Me About Cars” was published by Astra Magazine.

Min Kang’s book “darkly + completely” was selected as one of the winners for the Essay Press's 2021 chapbook contest.

Paul Tran’s All The Flower’s Kneeling and Shelley Wong’s As She Appears were featured in Electric Lit’s “7 Feminist Poetry Collections that Examine Gender Identity and Oppression” list.

Rajiv Mohabir was interviewed by World Literature Today to speak about his books Cutlish and Antiman.

Ocean Vuong was featured in The New York Times.

Joshua Nguyen’s Come Clean was reviewed in Muzzle Magazine.

Shelley Wong had two poems published in Cortland Review.

Chen Chen’s forthcoming book Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency was made available for preorder from Boa Editions.

Jaz Sufi had two poems published in Shade Literary Arts.

Shelley Wong’s poem "Walking Across Fire Island" was featured on The Slowdown podcast.

Ocean Vuong was interviewed by The New Yorker.

Ina Cariño was selected as one of the ten Whiting Award winners.

Joshua Ngyuen’s book Come Clean won the MIAL award for poetry.

Chen Chen’s poem “Winter” was published in The Rumpus.

March 2022

Jennifer S. Cheng’s essay “Letters to Mao” was published on Catapult.

Sejal Shah’s essay “Choosing Our Kin: Remembering Valerie Boyd” was published on LitHub.

Ocean Vuong was interviewed by Time Magazine to speak about his book Time is a Mother.

Ruban Quesada’s review of Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was published by National Book Critics Circle.

Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast A Spell to Save Us from the Void was featured in The Poet’s Nightstand by Shelly Wong.

Ploi Pirapokin’s interview of Kate Folk was published on Catapult.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman was nominated for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction.

W. Todd Kaneko’s essay “Night of the Skywalkers” was published in Passage’s North.

Melody S. Gee’s review of Sindya Bhanoo’s novel Seeking Fortune Elsewhere was published in Commonweal Magazine. 

Muriel Leung and Jackie Wang were selected as finalists for the Lammy Award from Lambda Poetry.

Eugenia Leigh’s “Glossolalia” was featured as Poets.org’s “Poem-A-Day.”

Rajiv Mohabir’s “Pointer Broom” was published in Kenyon Review.

Cathy Linh Che and Christopher Radcliffe received a scoring grant from Rooftop Films for their short documentary film Fade In (working title).

Tiana Nobile’s poem “Mother of Letters” was published by American Life in Poetry.

Seema Yasmin and Purvi Shah were featured authors in Community Building Art Work’s International Women’s Day list.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain was selected as a finalist for the California Book Awards.

Monica Ong’s conversation with María DeGuzmán, Kylie Gellatly, Donna SpruijtMetz, and Keith S. Wilson about Visual Poetry was published in the 2022 issue of Tab Journal.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was reviewed by Library Journal.

Franny Choi’s poem “I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame” was featured on The Slowdown.

E.J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others was awarded the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.

Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives has been shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

February 2022

Paul Tran’s conversation with Rigoberto González was published in Poets & Writers’ March/April 2022 issue. 

Angie Sijun Lou’s “The Motorcycle Factory” won third place for Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Borders Fiction Prize.

Joshua Nguyen’s Come Clean was reviewed in The Rumpus.

Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain was selected as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry.

Muriel Leung’s “To Molt and to Love You” was chosen as one of the finalists for Joyland Magazine’s 2021 Open Borders Fiction Prize.

Leah Silvieus’s Arabilis and Seema Yasmin’s God is a Virus were featured in The Poet’s Nightstand by Cathy Linh Che.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was featured in Electric Lit’s “Your Winter Reading Horoscope” list.

Shelley Wong’s forthcoming poetry collection As She Appears is now available for pre-order.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was reviewed and featured in National Book Critics Circle’s “30 Books in 30 Days” list.

Chen Chen was featured as a guest on The Poetry Question podcast.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “Wilder Flowers” was published in the anthology This Book is a Plant.

Matthew Olzmann was interviewed by Four Way Review.

W. Todd Kaneko had three poems published in the ninth issue of Defunct Magazine.

Mai Der Vang was interviewed by Sydney Van To for Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network.

Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling was reviewed by David Woo for the Poetry Foundation. 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan provided the illustrations for Divya Ghelani’s “Thoughts on a Pandemic Book Club: An Illustrated Essay,” which was published on Wasafiri.

Kyle Lucia Wu’s conversation with Michelle Lyn King was published on The Creative Independent.

C.E. Shue’s chapbook Bridge of Knots was chosen by Matthew Salesses for the Gold Line Press Fiction Award.

Jean Chen Ho was featured as a guest on the Write-Minded Podcast.

Lee Choi’s Transverse was reviewed by Anya Reeve for The Oxonian Review.

January 2022

E.J. Koh’s “American Han” was selected for The Atlantic’s “Six Poems to Bring You Comfort This Winter.”

Sarah Kay’s poem “Unreliable” was published in Issue 40 of Adroit Journal.

Tamiko Beyer’s “February” was featured as the “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Chen Chen was selected as one of the 2022 USA Fellowship awardees.

Eugenia Leigh had three poems published in Issue 40 of Adroit Journal. 

Mai Der Vang was selected as a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award in Poetry.

Eddie Kim’s “김장” was selected for the 2022 Best of the Net anthology.

Chen Chen had three poems published in Issue 40 of Adroit Journal.

Paul Tran’s poem “Galileo” was featured as the “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Purvi Shah’s poem “Watering Iridescence” was published by Ecotheo Collective.

Franny Choi’s essay "Racism is a Reboot: Bingeing Battlestar Galactica at the End of the World" is one of Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net finalists.

Chen Chen was a guest on Craft Podcast to talk about his writing process when writing his poem “Nature Poem.”

Jaz Sufi’s “When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down The Towers” was selected for the 2022 Best of the Net anthology.

Hossannah Asuncion’s poem “Suspending Disbelief While Brown, Part II” was published on Poets.org.

Hala Alyan wrote and starred in the short film “Tallahassee,” which was featured on The New Yorker’s Screening Room.

Chris Santiago’s poem “Insurrecto” was the featured Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Rajiv Mohabir’s Cutlish was reviewed in The Adroit Journal.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was excerpted by Electric Lit.

Joshua Nguyen is co-editor of the Wit Tea section for The Offing.

F. Douglas Brown’s poem “Aubade with Edits” was featured in Poem-A-Day for Poets.org.

Chris Santiago had four poems published in Issue 38 of The Adroit Journal.

Shruti Swamy and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello both won a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose.

Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was featured in an article for NBC News.

Sally Wen Mao’s “Loquats” was featured in The Paris Review’s 2021 Winter issue.

W. Todd Kaneko’s “How to Stay Safe” and “When Our Twin Sons Are Born” were published by Couplet Poetry.

Viplav Saini’s poem “Kintsugi” was published by American Poetry Review.

Jean Chen Ho was interviewed by Ariel Chu for them.

Mai Der Vang’s conversation with Sophia Terazawa was published by Asian American Writers’ Workshop. 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s story “Sound and Vision” was published in Waiting for the Gift: Stories Inspired by Low. 

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was reviewed in The Washington Post.

Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling and Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother were included in Publishing Weekly’s Spring 2022 Announcements for Poetry.

Kyle Lucia Wu was interviewed by Audrey Fong for The Adroit Journal.

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was excerpted by Literary Hub.

Ocean Vuong performed a reading of C.D. Wright’s poem “Tours” for Ours Poetica’s youtube channel. 

Jean Chen Ho was interviewed by Benedict Nguyễn for Bomb Magazine.

Truong Tran’s “Begin Again” was the featured “Poem-A-Day” for Poets.org.

Mai Der Vang’s poem “Disfigures” was published in Issue 38 of The Adroit Journal.

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was reviewed in the New York Times.

Eugenia Leigh’s poem “The First Leaf” was published in Spillway #29.

Jean Chen Ho’s novel Fiona and Jane was excerpted by The Cut.