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December 2023
Preeti Parikh’s poem “A Dye, A Weal, A Spell” was published in Beloit Poetry Journal.
Preeti Parikh’s poems “The [ ] of Cloth” and “Corpus | Divine” were published in The Cincinnati Review.
Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was named one of Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2023.
Sejal Shah’s second book How to Make Your Mother Cry: fictions is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press and is now available for pre-order.
Sayuri Ayers’s essay “Sing, Circle, Leap: Tracing the Movements of the American Lyric Essay” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by TriQuarterly Magazine.
Philip Metres’s interview on his book Shrapnel Maps and translations of poetry by Dimitri Psurtsev were published in Diode.
Theo LeGro’s review of Exit Signs on a Seaside Highway by Lara Atallah was published in Vagabond City Lit.
Theo LeGro’s Poet of the Week featured poem “Inheritance” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Brooklyn Poets.
Jessie Li’s story “Mouth and Heart” was selected as runner-up for StoryQuarterly’s 2023 Fiction Prize and will be published in 2024.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Sometimes Oral History Comes Off Recorder as Poem or, Birth Story” was published as Poem of the Week in Split This Rock.
E.J. Koh was interviewed by Otherppl.
E.J. Koh’s excerpt from her debut novel The Liberators was published in LitHub.
November 2023
Rona Luo’s commissioned visual poem is on view at the Southbank Centre’s A Great Sense of Space exhibit in London through February 2024.
Bobuq Sayed’s profile on Arundhati Roy was published by Liminal.
Fady Joudah and Tariq Luthun were interviewed for NPR’s Code Switch.
Stephanie Isan’s short story “The Last Thing She Touched” was published in Issue 45 of Bellevue Literary Review, who also interviewed her about the piece.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder was announced as a recipient of a 2024 NYSCA grant for her project "Composing the Ghazal: Carrying Forward a Literary and Musical Tradition.”
Shelley Wong’s poem “A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village” was featured as poem-of-the-day by Poets.org.
Rammel Chan is one of six playwrights announced to Goodman Theatre’s 2023 New Stages Residency.
Sejal Shah’s essays “Thank you,” “Curriculum,” and “Deluxe” featured in a column of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.
Craig Santos Perez’s book from unincorporated territory [åmot] won a 2023 National Book Award in Poetry.
Indrani Sengupta’s poem was published in the Fall 2023 issue of Pleiades Magazine.
E.J. Koh was featured in The Seattle Times for her debut novel The Liberators.
E.J. Koh’s The Liberators was reviewed by The L.A. Times.
Jordan Alam is writing a monthly column “The Therapist Is In” for The Seattle Times.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Ode to Crispy Salmon Skin” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by Honey Literary.
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is one of Audible's Best Memoirs of 2023.
Jane Wong was interviewed by Apogee.
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.
From From by Monica Youn, Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie, and Mott Street by Ava Chin were included in Time Magazine’s list of “The 100 Must-Read Books of 2023.”
Na Mee’s essay “What She Kept” was published in The Rumpus.
Theo LeGro’s poem “Sex After the Mastectomy” was published in Up the Staircase Quarterly.
E.J. Koh was interviewed about her new book The Liberators on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Theo LeGro’s poem “Rituals of the Damned” was published on the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network.
E.J. Koh’s novel The Liberators was released from Tin House.
Willie Lin’s collection Conversations Among Stones was released from BOA editions.
Andy Chen’s poem “Where I am White” won a 2024 Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses.
Angie Sijun Lou, William Shih, Naomi Shuyama-Gómez, and Shruti Swamy were longlisted for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize.
October 2023
K-Ming Chang’s novel Organ Meats was released from Penguin Random House.
K-Ming Chang was interviewed by the Granum Foundation for their podcast The Artist Statement.
J. Mae Barizo was interviewed by Kyle Lucia Wu, about her collection Tender Machines, for BOMB Magazine.
Moeko Fujii’s article “The Imagination of the Tiny” was featured in Orion Magazine.
Annesha Mitha’s short story “The Waiting Room” was published by Electric Literature.
Niv Sekar was announced as a The Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil 2023-2024 Emerging Writer Fellow.
George Abraham’s poem “To the Watchlist” was published on The Drift.
Jenny Xie’s novel Holding Pattern was listed on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 (So Far).
Jessica Abughattas and Marianne Chan have poems published in Issue 6 of Brink Literary.
E.J. Koh was profiled in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers.
Jennifer Chang was awarded the Levinson Prize for her poems “Dialogues (Against Literature)” and “The Age of Unreason,” and Michelle Peñaloza was awarded the Frederick Bock Prize for her poems “Utang Na Loob” and “All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems” from the July/August 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “The Atheist Performs Augury” was published in the first issue of Frozen Sea.
F. Douglas Brown’s poetry piece Hot Air Love was published in LARB Quarterly, no. 39: Air.
Theo LeGro’s poem featured as Poet of the Week by Brooklyn Poets.
Sahar Muradi’s collection Octobers was released from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky, translated by Philip Metres, was released from Green Linden Press. This book was the winner of the Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize.
Shelley Wong’s As She Appears was a finalist, and Solmaz Sharif’s Customs was a winner for the 42nd Annual Northern California Book Awards in poetry.
Muriel Leung’s “The Dates,” a grouping of three prose poems, was published in Issue 165 of BOMB Magazine.
Mai Der Vang’s story “Injury After Another” was awarded a 2022 Prairie Schooner Prize.
September 2023
Nay Saysourinho’s chapbook The Capture of Krao Farini was released from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Jenny Xie was interviewed by Jen Lue, about her debut novel Holding Pattern, for BOMB Magazine.
George Abraham was interviewed by them.
Aria Aber’s poem “Oakland in Rain” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Tania James was longlisted for The National Book Award in Fiction for Loot.
Timothy Moore’s fiction chapbook I Will Teach You Retribution was released from Long Day Press.
Cathy Linh Che was announced as a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Nonfiction Literature for 2023.
Jasmine Sawers’s short story “Tea with the Queen” won first prize for the 2023 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction.
Zoe Leonard’s short story “No Way Out But Down” was published in Sixfold.
Rajiv Mohabir’s new collection Whale Aria was released from Four Way Books.
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s chapbook The Skin is a Warm Coat won Frontier Poetry’s Breakthrough Chapbook Contest and will be published in spring 2024.
W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Self-Portrait as Flash Gordon [Emperor Ming in Love Remix]” was published in Diode.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “spell for trans safety (i)” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by Bellingham Review.
Joseph Han’s short story “Please Be Patient, Student Driver” was published in The Sun Magazine.
CE Shue’s book Bridge of Knots made the Small Press Distribution best-sellers list.
Sumita Chakraborty’s poems “The B-Sides of the Golden Record: Track Six,” “Track Eight,” “Track Nine,” “Hidden Track,” and “Track Ten” were published in Volume 64, Issue 3 of the Massachusetts Review.
최 Lindsay | Lindsay Choi’s poem “From ‘Who Can Recall His Past Lives’” was published in Changes Review.
Nghiem Tran’s debut novella We’re Safe When We’re Alone was released from Coffee House Press.
Oliver de la Paz’s The Diaspora Sonnets, Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [åmot], Paisley Rekdal’s West: A Translation, and Monica Youn’s From From were announced as the longlist nominees for the 2023 National Book Awards for Poetry.
Angie Sijun Lou’s short story “Double Happiness” and Na Mee’s short story “9A” were selected as finalists for Narrative Magazine’s Spring 2023 Story Contest.
Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Beauty,” Franny Choi’s poem “September, 2001,” and Jess X. Snow’s poem "Gazing at the Grand Canyon from the Moon" were published in the Winter 2023, Volume 44, Number 2 issue of the Indiana Review.
Christine Shan Shan Hou and Vi Khi Nao’s ekphrastic project “The Temple of Inconvenient Sisterhood” was published in Ex-Puritan.
E.J. Koh’s forthcoming novel The Liberators was included in Literary Hub’s list of “25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall.”
Chen Chen’s poems “The Abyss Gives Us a Pep Talk as We Continue to Fall” and “Personal Pizza Personal Poem” were published in the latest issue of Hooligan Magazine.
Brynn Saito’s poem “On Trying to Have a Child” was published in Gulf Coast Magazine.
Muriel Leung’s review “On Muscle Memory: Muriel Leung and Jenny Liou in conversation” was published in Gulf Coast Magazine.
Eugenia Leigh’s essay “Off the Medication: New Year’s Eve 2019” was published in Issue 12 of the Bennington Review.
Ching-In Chen’s poem “Breath for Metal” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Iris Law’s poem “My father wears the night sky on his back” was nominated for Best of the Net 2024 by Good River Review.
Kimiko Hahn was awarded a 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Kazim Ali’s book of new and selected poems Sukun was published from Wesleyan University Press.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion published his illustrated poetry chapbook remembering (y)our light.
August 2023
Purvi Shah was interviewed about her 2022 Writer’s Digest Poetry Award winning poem "Helix of the gift, lineage song," which was published in the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest.
Tiana Nobile’s poem “Show Me A Mother” was published in the August 2023 issue of Adi Magazine.
Juniper Viernes’s creative nonfiction essay on the film We’re All Going to the World’s Fair was published in vol. 27 of wig wag.
Monica Ong and Michelle Peñaloza were named 2023 Poetry Award Winners and awarded a grant by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
Chrysanthemum was named a 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.
Chen Chen’s poems “Rough Chop” and “Weekend” were published on the Poetry Society of New York.
Brynn Saito’s collection Under a Future Sky is out now from Red Hen Press.
W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Self-Portrait as Flash Gordon [Emperor Ming in Love Remix]” was published in volume 16 number 2 of Diode Poetry Journal.
R.A. Villanueva’s collection Reliquaria was featured on The Bridge as Book of the Week.
Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain was reviewed by Southern Indiana Review.
W. Todd Kaneko’s poem “Naming the Birds” was published in Orion Magazine’s anthology Spark Birds.
Chen Chen’s essay “The Face of a Poem” for the Harriet Books blog was published on Poetry Foundation.
Sally Wen Mao’s collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was featured on Page One of the September/October 2023 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Sally Wen Mao was featured on Poets & Writers for the research which inspired her collection The Kingdom of Surfaces.
Theo LeGro’s poems “Stage 2,” “Death follows me in and out of every door,” and “Nudes before the mastectomy” were published in SARKA.
Jai Dulani’s chapbook AMASS was chosen as a finalist in the 2023 DIAGRAM NMP Chapbook Contest.
Kimberly Alidio was interviewed on Nightboat Books for her collection Teeter.
Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Chore Dress” was published in The Yale Review.
Jane Wong’s poem “Three Rabbits” was published in Sierra.
MT Vallarta was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Rising Poet Prize by Palette Poetry.
Soham Patel’s new collection all one in the end—/water was released from Delete Press.
Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “It Is 6 p.m. on the 2 Train Downtown” and interview was published on Brooklyn Poets as Brooklyn Poets’s Poet of the Week.
Troy Osaki was interviewed by Nimra Ahmad for Crosscut.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “The Belladonna of Sadness” from her collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was featured on Literary Hub.
Oliver de la Paz’s interview with David Roderick and Philip Metres’s translation of “To Y.K.” by Sergey Gandlevskey were published in Issue 46 of The Adroit Journal.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed on S2 E11 of the Postpartum Production podcast and rob mclennan’s blog about her poetry collection Bianca.
Stephanie Isan’s poem “Unsung” was published in Epiphany.
Noah Arhm Choi’s poems “Note to Past Self on What the Doctor Will Neglect to Tell You about T” and “How to Burn a Bra in a Brooklyn Apartment”, Chen Chen’s poems “ode to the gayest part of me,” “End of September,” and “nature facts,” Joshua Nguyen’s poems “‘You Sank My Destroyer!’ How Harold & Kumar Goes To White Castle Influences The Poet’s Relationship to Assimilation, The Body, & Whiteness” and “American Lục Bát For The Thịt Kho I Make For My Loved Ones” and Michelle Peñaloza’s four collages “Haw Flake Lola,” “Skyflake Lola,” “Lola Werthers,” and “I Quite Lola” were published in Issue 6 of Honey Literary.
Chen Chen’s poem “have you eaten yet” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Minted” from her new collection Kingdom of Surfaces was featured on AAWW: The Margins.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion and Chrysanthemum were selected as finalists for the 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowships from the Poetry Foundation.
Asha Thanki’s short story "Paloma” was published in Volume 34, Number 3 of The Gettysburg Review.
Tarfia Faizullah’s poem “Poem Without Love” was featured as poem-of-the-day by Poets.org.
Sally Wen Mao’s collection The Kingdom of Surfaces is out now from Graywolf Press.
Aria Aber’s poem “Dawn” was featured in the 38th annual issue of Provincetown Arts.
July 2023
“Keeping Time,” a collage of conversations between Shruti Swamy and Meng Jin was published on AAWW: The Margins.
Philip Metres’ poem “Prayer” was featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown.
Jay Deshpande’s poem “Proportion” was published in the summer issue of The Southern Review.
Chen Chen’s poem “God, Gods, Powers, Lord, Universe—” was published in Narrative Magazine.
Eugenia Leigh’s essay “Motherhood Brough My Buried Rage To The Surface” was pubslihed in romper.
Oliver de la Paz was named a 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets.
Kimberly Alidio’s review essay of Oliver de la Paz’s The Diaspora Sonnets was featured on Poetry Foundation.
An excerpt from Kimberly Alidio’s upcoming collection Teeter was published in Cleveland Review of Books.
Cristina Medina’s poem “After divorce, mark ‘LOOKING FOR I DON’T KNOW’” was published in issue 49 of Salt Hill Journal.
Angela Peñaredondo’s poem “[to dream of a cardinal feeding…]” was published on AAWW: The Margins.
Chen Chen is a featured blogger for Poetry Foundation this summer.
Preeti Parikh’s poem “Of the [ ] | Woman || Of the [ ] | Eighteen” was published in AAWW: The Margins.
Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
Indrani Sengupta’s poems “I throw a dinner party” and “nothing body” were published on American Poetry Review.
E. J. Koh's forthcoming debut novel The Liberators is available for pre-order. The novel will be out from Tin House Books on November 7, 2023.
Oliver de la Paz’s collection The Diaspora Sonnets was released from W.W. Norton.
Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns” from his new collection The Diaspora Sonnets was featured on Poetry Society of America.
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk’s short story “Yonsei” and Jennifer S. Cheng’s hybrid essay “Catalogue of Falling Things” were selected as finalists in the fiction and nonfiction categories for the 2023 Iowa Review Awards.
Moeko Fujii’s article “Refusing to Leave” was published in Orion Magazine.
Chris Santiago’s poem “School of Athens” was featured in Poetry Northwest.
Aria Aber has joined The Yale Review as a contributing editor.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was elected a 2023 Royal Society of Literature Fellow.
Mai Nardone was interviewed on the Critical Literary Consumption podcast and by BK Magazine about his collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom.
Alison Roh Park’s poems “Ancestors,” “Jemez Springs,” and “Accidents” were featured in the Summer 2023 Part II volume of Action, Spectacle.
Angela Veronica Wong was a guest editor for the Summer 2023 volume of Action, Spectacle.
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was longlisted for the 2023 New American Voices Award.
Oliver de la Paz was interviewed by Literary Hub about his new collection The Diaspora Sonnets.
George Abraham’s poem “Instead of Ekphrasis” was published in Guernica.
Ava Chin’s nonfiction book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming was reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Arthur Sze’s poem “A Letter to Tao Qian” and article “Arthur Sze Introduces Jennifer Elise Foerster” was published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review.
Jenny Xie was interviewed about her novel Holding Pattern on NPR’s All Things Considered.
George Abraham’s poem “Field Notes on Terror & Beginnings” was published in Poetry London and on Poetry Daily.
Jess Rizkallah’s poem “in another dimension i am a good daughter” was published in Paper Darts.
Christine Shan Shan Hou and Vi Khi Nao’s chapbook Evolution of the Bullet was released from Bottlecap Press.
Willie Lin’s poem “Gauntlet for the Left Hand” was published on Poetry Online.
Jenny Xie was interviewed by Electric Literature about her debut novel Holding Pattern.
Michelle Peñaloza’s poems “All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems” and “Utang Na Loob” were published in the July/August 2023 issue of POETRY.
Jennifer Chang’s poem “The Age of Unreason” was published in the July/August 2023 issue of POETRY.
June 2023
Carolyn Ho received an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Cathy Linh Che was interviewed by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association about her and Kyle Lucia Wu’s children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History.
Chen Chen’s poem “Quintessence: the Quotidian” was featured in Poetry Daily.
Michelle Peñaloza’s “What We Can Do With Our Hands: Collages and Poems” featuring her poems “Hanggang Sa Muli,” “Little One,” and “Stereograph: After a Typhoon - Wherever the Roof Lands, There the Filipino Makes His Home, 1912” was published in Bellingham Review.
Zahir Janmohamed’s essay “India Is Not Modi, We Once Said. I Wish I Still Believed It.” was published in The Altantic.
Chen Chen’s poem “A Queer Translates Himself” was featured on the Queer Lives #1 episode of the Risk! podcast.
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was included in The Millions’s Must-Read Poetry: Summer 2023 list.
George Abraham’s poetry book Birthright was featured alongside Aurielle Marie’s Gumbo Ya Ya in Palette Poetry’s Poetry Double Features #4.
Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was selected as one of Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher 2023 Summer Reading List books.
Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was named as an NPR Critics Summer Pick and a Good Morning America Pick of the Month.
Elysha Chang’s debut novel A Quitter’s Paradise was released from SJP Lit.
Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern was released from Penguin Random House.
Bonnie Chau’s article “ChatGPT Revises Authorship” was published in the May/June 2023 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Rachelle Cruz’s short story “Office Auntie” was featured in The Sunday Morning Transport.
Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern was reviewed by the New York Times.
CE Shue was interviewed by Bloom about her chapbook Bridge of Knots.
Phayvanh Luekhamhan’s essay “Across the Phayvanh-verse” was published on Substack.
Chen Chen was featured on episode 8 of the Queer Poem-a-day: Lineage Edition Deerfield Public Library Podcast with his poem “In The World’s Italianest Restaurant.”
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Echoes of Diaspora” won third place for the 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Introduction” was published in the Room 46.2 Ley Line issue of Room Magazine.
Yasmin Adele Majeed’s poem “Tombs” won the 2023 American Short(er) Fiction First-Place Prize.
Eddie Kim’s poem “Top” was published in Poetry Northwest.
Joshua Nguyen’s poems “This Is Just To Say, I Am Done Labeling My Oat Milk In The Faculty Lounge” and “Abandoned Duplex” were featured on Cultural Daily.
Franny Choi’s The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On was reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Rajiv Mohabir’s essay “A Queer Relearning Hindustani” was published by the Indo-Carribean Canadian Association.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Epithalamium That Refuses to Ignore the Possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse” was published in HAD.
Janice Lobo Sapigao and Shelley Wong received 2023-2026 Lucas Artists fellowships for Literary Arts from Montalvo Arts Center.
Shelley Wong’s collection As She Appears won a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Poetry, and K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want won for Lesbian Fiction.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Trees in Mississippi” was published in Bitter Southerner.
Jenny Xie’s essay “People Paid Me to Cuddle Them” was published in Esquire.
Philip Metres’ “Poetry Kinship: Zach Thomas and the Writers in Residence Program” was featured in June 2023 issue of The Adroit Journal.
Philip Metres’ “The Paradise of Danez Smith’s ‘Summer, Somewhere’” was published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Cincinnati Review.
Philip Metres’ essay “Letters I Must Wait to Open: Revising ‘Ashberries: Letters’” was published in The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 US Poets on their Drafts, Craft, and Process from Bloomsbury.
Paul Tran’s poem “The Three Graces” was published in the New Yorker.
George Abraham’s poem “Of Nation,” was published in Rusted Radishes.
Jane Wong’s novel Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was reviewed by The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Porch Poem” was published in Issue 37: Fire of the LA Review of Books.
J. Mae Barizo’s Tender Machines was reviewed by Poetry Foundation.
Chen Chen’s poems “i love you” and “i hate you” were published in the Spring 2023 Issue 4 of Couplet Poetry.
Tiana Nobile’s essay on A. Van Jordan’s M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems was published in Poetry Daily’s “Books We Love” feature.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder had four poems, “Shaam-e-firaaq: The Evening of Separation,” “The Earthen Pot,” “Nimrod’s Flame,” and “Yaman, an Evening Raga” published in Peste Magazine.
May 2023
Franny Choi’s poem “Time-Sensitive” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Jess Rizkallah’s poems “sad girl saturn return” and “Fire poem” were published on Matter.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s essay “A moment that changed me: I was in my 20s and depressed — then my mother moved into my bed” was published in The Guardian.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “HomeGoods” was featured as poem-of-the day on Poets.org.
Jenny Xie’s essay on her novel Holding Pattern, “My Novel is a Love Letter My Mother Can’t Read,” was published in The Atlantic.
Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Ching-In Chen’s Recombinant, and Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother were included in Book Riot’s round-up of 10 Poetry Books by LGBTQ Asian Authors to Read Right Now.
Jane Wong was interviewed by PEN America for her memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.
Chris Santiago’s poem “Infix” was published in Guernica.
Jason Bayani’s poem “Someday, Again” was recently featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poem “Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)” was recently featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Kimberly Alidio’s text and visual diptych poem “Composition No 2” after Christina Quisumbing Ramilo’s “Composition” commissioned by Nicole Eisenman and The Poetry Project was published in Issue 8 of Hauser & Wirth’s Ursula.
Angie Sijun Lou’s short story “Glint of Sport” was featured in the Spring 2023 issue of ZYZZYVA, no. 125.
Sarah Kay’s poem “In the House With No Doors” was recently featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Joseph O. Legaspi’s poem “To Boil Water” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.
River 慧瑩 Dandelion has been accepted as a Poetry Fellow for Lambda Literary.
River 慧瑩 Dandelion’s poem “spell for trans safety (i)” was recently published in Bellingham Review.
Solmaz Sharif’s Customs, Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense, and Wo Chan’s Togetherness were announced as finalists for the 2023 Firecracker Awards in poetry by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Sally Wen Mao’s poems “The Peony Pavilion” and “The Romance of the Castle-Toppler” from her forthcoming collection The Kingdom of Surfaces were featured on The Offing.
Jenny Xie’s poem “Too Much and Therefore Nothing” was published in The Believer.
Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill, and Lisbeth White’s book Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power was released from North Atlantic Books.
Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City was reviewed by BookPage.
Jane Wong’s debut memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is out now from Tin House.
George Abraham’s “After,word” was published in AAWW: The Margins Love Letters notebook.
Rana Tahir’s poem “When Asked” was published in AAWW: The Margins.
Bushra Rehman was interviewed about Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by the Queer Everything Podcast.
Troy Osaki wrote a review on Paul Hlava Ceballos’ collection banana [ ] as Critic-At-Large for Poetry Northwest.
Fatimah Asghar is the first winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for their debut novel When We Were Sisters.
Jay Deshpande’s poem “Wanting a Child” was featured as Poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Sandra Lim’s “Poem” was featured as Poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu were interviewed about their children’s book An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide To Our History by Literary Hub.
andie millares’ poems “i don’t wanna be pregnant but i want everyone to treat me like i’m pregnant” and “Poem for the Rip in Luka Dončić’s Jersey” were published in MAYDAY Magazine.
J. Mae Barizo’s collection Tender Machines was released from Tupelo Press.
R.A. Villanueva’s story “Offerings” was featured on The Moth Radio Hour.
Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu’s children's book An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guidemarch to Our History, illustrated by Kavita Ramchandram, was released from Haymarket Books.
April 2023
Ava Chin’s narrative nonfiction book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming is out from Penguin Press.
Truong Tran’s poem “from BOOK OF THE OTHER” was recently featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown podcast.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Judith I” was published in Muzzle Magazine.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s third novel The Sleep Watcher was released from Sceptre Books.
Lois Mei-en Kwa’s short story “The Matriarchs” was published in the April issue of Apex Magazine.
Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother was shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Sandra Lim was announced the winner of the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize.
Rona Luo’s poem “On Sitting in a Formal Garden After Explaining to a Curator Why a British Institution Shouldn’t Sell Original Cultural Revolution Posters in its Gift Shop” was published in Issue 36 of Anmly.
Na Mee’s poems “Proficiency” and “#familiesbelongtogether” were published by Diode Editions.
Susan Nguyen’s poem “To be brave, I look to the daffodil” was featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown podcast.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Mutha Magazine.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Frontier Poetry.
Bianca by Eugenia Leigh and Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong were included in Poets.org reading list for National Poetry Month.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was included in the LA Times’ roundup “The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Short Stories.”
The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On by Franny Choi, Bianca by Eugenia Leigh were included in Book Riot’s list “If You Like This Prose Book, Read This Poetry Collection.”
Shelley Wong's article "Writing Into Our Imagining: Applying For Grants and Fellowships" was published in May/June 2023 Poets & Writers magazine.
Shelley Wong's debut poetry collection As She Appears was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award.
Tamiko Beyer’s review of American Sycamore by Lisbeth White was published in the Georgia Review.
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s poem “The Eel Questions” was published in AAWW: The Margins.
Logan Hoffman-Smith’s essay “I Want to Live A Life Outside of Gender” was published in Electric Literature.
Angela Peñaredondo’s poems “Transmitter Signals from a Young Brown Feminist” and “Keeper of Blades” was published in the Somaflights Spring 2023 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.
Gina Chung was interviewed about her debut novel Sea Change by Jen Lue for BOMB Magazine.
Paul Tran’s poem “Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising” was published on Poets.org.
Joshua Nguyen’s craft chapbook Hidden Labor & The Naked Body: Work They Don’t Prepare You For After Publication was released from Sundress Publications.
Philip Metres’ poem “Qasida for Abdel Wahab Yousif” was published in Issue 46, Volume 2 of The Journal, and the poem “ “Map the Not Answer” was published in Volume 43, Number 1 of Pleiades.
Philip Metres’ craft essay “Dreaming the Total Poem, Assembling the Counterarchive, Writing the Refuge” was published in Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems from University of Akron Press.
MT Vallarta will be the Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies this Fall 2023 at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Rana Tahir’s book Stranger Things: Heroes and Monsters (Choose Your Own Adventure) was released from Random House Children’s Books.
Troy Osaki’s poem “Every Filipino Belongs to the Philippines” was published in KUOW for National Poetry Month.
Fatimah Asghar’s book When We Were Sisters was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was interviewed by The Independent about her forthcoming novel The Sleep Watcher.
Eugenia Leigh’s poem “I Was Wrong About So Much” was featured as Poem of the Day on The Slowdown.
Mai Nardone’s Welcome Me to the Kingdom was reviewed by the Asian Review of Books.
Jane Wong’s forthcoming memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City received a starred review on Publisher’s Weekly.
Franny Choi was interviewed about The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Scott Detrow for NPR.
Jess Yuan’s poem “Crusoe’s Islands” was published in Big Other.
Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s novel Four Treasures of the Sky was released in paperback.
Chen Chen’s poem “The School of Night & Hyphens” was reprinted in the anthology Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works.
Ina Cariño’s collection Feast was included in Buzzfeed’s list “13 New And Upcoming Poetry Collections To Pick Up If You’re Trying To Get Into Poetry.”
Aria Aber’s poem “What Were You Waiting For” was published in the latest issue of Believer Magazine.
Jenny Xie’s novel Holding Pattern has been selected as a “5 under 35” Honoree by the National Book Awards.
Franny Choi’s poem “September, 2001” and Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Beauty” was published in Volume 44, Number 2 of Indiana Review.
Joshua Nguyen has two poems published in the Spring 2023 issue of Gravy Quarterly.
March 2023
Philip Metres’ poem “Wind/ode,” George Abraham’s poem “Love Letter to the Eve of the End of the World”, and Craig Santos Perez’s poems “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier” and “Good Fossil Fuels,” and essay “Recycling Poetry in a Time of Climate Change” were published in AAWW: The Margin’s Climate Notebook.
Paul Tran’s essay “Poetry & Grief: On ‘Those Winter Sundays’ by Robert Hayden” was published on Poets.org as part of the Poetry Coalition’s programming on Poetry and Grief.
Gina Chung’s debut novel Sea Change was released from Vintage.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Poetry Northwest about Bianca.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s poem “Pain Reliever” was published in Tabi Po! Literary Magazine.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “Humpback Vocalizations” from his forthcoming collection Whale Aria was publishing in Issue 33: the Ocean Issue of Ecotone Magazine.
Jean Chen Ho’s essay “How to Stay, When to Vanish” was published in Criterion.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed about Bianca by Alison Stewart for WNYC’s All Of It podcast.
Franny Choi was interviewed by Maslen Ward for Washington Square Review.
Aria Aber’s poem “Zelda Fitzgerald” was featured on The Slowdown podcast.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and Jessica J. Lee were interviewed by Monocle magazine about the anthology they edited together, Dog Hearted.
Gowri Koneswaran is Split This Rock’s New Literary Arts Program Director.
Janice Lobo Sapigao published an essay on loss and reflects on Laurel Chen’s poem “Greensickness” as part of the Poetry Coalition’s March Programming on Poetry and Grief.
Eugenia Leigh was interviewed by Write or Die magazine.
Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems and Ina Cariño’s collection Feast were featured in Book Riot’s “Reflecting on Winter Poetry” list.
Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems was reviewed in Harriet Books and West Trade Review.
Ina Cariño’s poem “Graveyard Picnic” was featured as Poem of the Week on Split This Rock.
Bushra Rehman was interviewed on the National Endowment for the Arts Art Works podcast.
E.J. Koh has four poems, “After the Funeral,” “Cold Water,” “Forbidden Peak,” and “The Farmhouse,” published in Airlight Magazine.
Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems received a starred review in Shelf Awareness.
K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want, Bushra Rehman’s Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion, Shelley Wong’s As She Appears, and Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling were named as 2023 Lammy Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards.
Ploi Pirapokin’s essay “Reading Comprehension: Fuck-It Friends” was featured in the Winter/Spring 2023's "Noncompliant" issue of The Sycamore Review (Volume 33, Issue 2).
Jessica Yuan’s acrostic poem “[UNTITLED LOVE SONG]” was published in Heavy Feather Review.
Janine Joseph was interviewed for the Poetry Foundation's podcast, Poetry Off the Shelf.
Lyn Li Che’s poem “Ogress” was published in Passages North.
Kenji Liu published new translations in Volume 1 of Senryu by Heart Mountain Senryū Association.
Indrani Sengupta’s poem “the Woman” was published in Volume 14, Issue 2 of New South.
Sahar Muradi has been selected for the inaugural poetry cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator program for debut writers from Poets & Writers.
Joshua Nguyen’s poem “American Lục Bát For the End of The World [At Long Last, At Least We Have Our Language?] or The Final Sonnet” was featured as Poem of the Week on Split This Rock.
Jess Rizkallah’s poem “Identity Politics” was published on Poetry Online.
Jordan Alam is a recipient of the 2023 Artist Trust Fellowship.
Jay Deshpande’s poems “Jenner, CA” and “quiet night. new moon” were published in the March 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine.
Ina Cariño’s debut collection Feast was released from Alice James Books.
February 2023
Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s play PUBLIC OBSCENITIES will be shown at Soho Rep and was featured in the spring preview of Best Off Broadway shows in TimeOut.
Ina Cariño reads the poem “Lean Economy” from their debut collection Feast, which is also featured in Page One of the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “Forgiveness, Perhaps” was recently featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown podcast.
andie millares has two poems, “Millennial Pink and Breast Cancer Pink Show Up to the Party in the Same Dress” and “Party Postscript Set to the Line Dance Choreography of ‘todo, todo’” in the second issue of healthline zine.
Christine Hou’s poem “A Promise” was published in Copenhagen.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder has two poems, “Shaam-e-firaaq: The Evening of Separation” and “The Earthen Pot” published in Peste Magazine.
Rana Tahir has two poems, “Trenches at ShowBiz, Kuwait City” and “Coming Home” published on The Common.
Ina Cariño’s poem “War Supply” was published in Volume 28, No. 4 of Southern Cultures.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was included in the Boston Globe roundup of three books that tackle the complexities of friendship.
Lehua M. Taitano’s poem “Heart, as Black Phoebe” was featured in Issue 14 of Green Linden Press.
Sally Wan Mao has been announced as a Core & Steepletop Artists in Residence for July 2023.
Cathy Linh Che’s “Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival” was awarded Best of the Net 2023 in Poetry, and K-Ming Chang’s short story “Daughter, Redacted” was awarded in fiction.
Eugenia Leigh’s forthcoming book Bianca was included in Open Books New and Noteworthy list.
Terisa Siagatonu has been announced as a 2023 Emerson Collective Fellow in the Climate Cohort.
Eugenia Leigh’s essay “Mental Illness Made My First Year as a Mom Excruciating. I’m Just Lucky It Wasn’t Worse” was published on TIME.
Mai Nardone was interviewed by Electric Literature about his short story collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom.
Mai Nardone’s short story “English!” from his book Welcome Me to the Kingdom was excerpted on Literary Hub.
Mai Nardone was interviewed by The Brooklyn Review.
Aria Aber’s poem “Zelda Fitzgerald” was published in The New Yorker.
Paul Tran’s debut poetry collection All The Flowers Kneeling is a finalist for the 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Solmaz Sharif is a finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
George Abraham’s poem “Let Him Rest” was published in Poetry Magazine.
E. J. Koh's forthcoming debut novel The Liberators is available for pre-order. The novel will be out from Tin House Books on November 7, 2023.
Paul Tran’s All The Flowers Kneeling was selected as winner in poetry for the Golden Poppy Awards 2022 by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.
Jee Leong Koh’s new book Inspector Inspector was reviewed in Times Literary Supplement.
Na Mee received one of the Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowshops.
Janine Joseph’s poem “The Night before You Are Naturalized” was published in Volume 17, Number 2 of Poetry Northwest.
Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.
Jasmine Sawers The Anchored World was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story.
Paul Tran’s All The Flowers Kneeling was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award.
Eugenia Leigh’s poem “My Father Erupts” from her forthcoming book Bianca was published in Issue 91 of The Cortland Review.
Mai Nardone’s short story collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom was released from Penguin Random House.
Idrani Sengupta’s poem “the Woman” was published in Issue 14.2 of New South.
Margaret Rhee was named a 2023 Bandung Resident with the Asian American Arts Alliance and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts.
George Abraham’s poem “Let Him Rest” was published in the latest issue of Poetry Magazine.
Jane Wong’s forthcoming memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City received a Kirkus Review.
Franny Choi was interviewed by PEN America about her collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On.
Em Dial’s virtual poetry exhibition “The Ball” launched.
Tiana Nobile’s poem “Yuri” was published and featured as poem of the week by Split This Rock.
George Abraham’s poem “ars poetica with waning memory” was republished on Poetry Online.
Candy Shue’s book Bridge of Knots was released by Gold Line Press.
Chen Chen’s poem “October 2020, 2021, 2022,” was published in Blue Mountain Review.
Jenny Xie was interviewed by the Yale Review.
January 2023
Bushra Rehman was interviewed by The Rumpus.
Fatimah Asghar’s poem “When We Thought the World Would End, I Didn’t Think it Would Be Like This,” was published on The American Poetry Review.
Eugenia Leigh’s forthcoming collection Bianca was reviewed in Rhino.
Ina Cariño’s poem “Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Purvi Shah’s poem “Saraswati is perturbed when the swami says 1 + 1 = 1” was published on dialogist.
Purvi Shah has been shortlisted in poetry by the Malahat Review for the 2023 Open Season Awards.
Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems was reviewed by New York Journal of Books, as well as on the VerseCurious podcast.
Jean Chen Ho’s Fiona and Jane was released in paperback.
Sumita Chakraborty’s poem “The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Two: ‘Sounds of Human Labor’” was published on Split This Rock.
Janine Joseph’s second collection Decade of the Brain: Poems was released from Alice James Books.
Matthew Salesses’ novel The Sense of Wonder was released from Little, Brown.
Matthew Salesses’ essay “How I Found My Desire to Live After My Wife Died” was published on Time.
Shelley Wong published three poems in Action, Spectacle.
Shelley Wong was named as one of Poets & Writers debut poets in "The Beauty of Being: Our Eighteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets."
Shelley Wong's As She Appears was reviewed in The Rumpus.
Sayuri Ayers’ poem “In the Season of Pink Ladies” was published on Poetry Foundation.
Helene Achanzar’s poems “O My Worry, I Reach for Your Hand,” “O Gratitude, I Empty My Cup,” and “On the Spectrum of Intimacy” were published in the Winter 2022 Issue of the Georgia Review.
Indrani Sengupta’s poem “here in the Olde” was published in Washington Square Review.
Chen Chen’s chapbook Explodingly Yours was released by Ghost City Press.
Philip Metres is the winner of the inaugural Stephen Mitchell Prize for his translation of Ochre and Rust: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. The book will be published in the fall of 2023.
Nay Saysourinho completed a Fellowship with Baldwin For the Arts.
E.J. Koh has been named a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea awarded the 2022 Translation Grand Prize to E. J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello for their English translation of The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Korean poet Yi Won.
Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “They Say It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost Than to Never Have Loved at All” was published in Issue 17 of Apogee.
Jenny Xie’s novel Holding Pattern, E.J Koh’s novel The Liberators, and Gina Chung’s novel Sea Change, were featured in R.O. Kwon’s list of “62 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2023” for Electric Literature.
Janine Joseph’s forthcoming collection Decade of the Brain was featured in the New York Times.
Joshua Nguyen’s poems “Kaleidoscoping Around The Haibun Of The Last Can Of SPAM,” “To Asian Squat or Not?,” and “Rest Day: Coffee / Coffee / Love / Love” were published in the Broadkill Review.
Chen Chen’s poems “night sugar” and “Quintessence: the Caffeinated” were published in issue 5 of Peripheries Journal.
Jenny Xie’s poem “Abstract with Red Square” was featured as poem of the day on Poets.org.
Oliver de la Paz has been named the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA from 2023–2025.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s lyric essay “We Bury What We Cannot Bear to Lose” was published in Gulf Coast.