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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 2024
Sahar Muradi’s poem “All I can see is nothing” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Kimberly Alidios’ collection Teeter won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry.
Chen Chen’s poem “The Year” was published in Zocalo Public Square.
Chen Chen’s poems “12 Questions” and “Formula for a Day” were published in Quarterly West.
George Abraham’s essay “Notes to Gaza’s Beloved Dead” was published on Atmos.
E.J. Koh’s novel The Liberators was the winner of the 2024 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award.
Ina Cariño’s poem “Summer Figs” was published in Issue 6 of Equatorial Magazine.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder was interviewed about Night of Ghazals, an evening of ghazal recitation, by Poets House.
Asha Thanki’s novel A Thousand Times Before was selected as a 2024 best book of the year by NPR and Boston Globe.
MT Vallarta’s poem “When I Was Straight” was featured in the collection When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton published by Small Harbour Publishing.
Jess Yuan’s poem “Cow Stomach Quartet” was published in the Winter 2024 issue of The Coachella Review.
November 2024
Suman Chhabra’s poem “WOW” and Willie Lin’s poem “Provenance” were published in Issue 13 of Bennington Review.
Duy Đoàn’s collection Zombie Vomit Mad Libs was released from Alice James Books.
Duy Đoàn’s poem “2046 is on the 24th floor” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.
leena aboutaleb’s poem “October” and River 瑩 瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Unreported” were published in issue 25.1 of Mizna.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s collection Theophanies was named a finalist for the 2024 Golden Poppy Book Awards in the Martin Cruz Smith Award: Emerging Diverse Voices category.
Sammi Chiyao’s short story “Corn Soup” was published in Peatsmoke Journal.
Naomi A. Shuyama-Gómez’s poem “year of good fishing” was published in Poets for Science.
October 2024
Rick Barot was interviewed by Hua Xi for Issue 51 of The Adroit Journal.
Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Payee” was published in The Nation.
Rick Barot’s collection Moving the Bones was released from Milkweed Editions.
Jason Bayani’s poems “Song” and “The Wheel Is,” and Rick Barot’s poems “POLAROID,” “SCAR,” and “RIVER” were published in Volume 17, No. 2 of Diode Poetry Journal.
Melody S. Gee’s essay “Initiations” was published in Commonweal Magazine.
Jenny Xie’s short story “Stick Season” was published in the Fall 2024 issue of The Sewanee Review.
Jess Yuan’s poem “Without You” was published in the Fall 2024 issue of Sixth Finch.
September 2024
Kimberly Alidio’s collection Traceable Relation was released from Fonograf Editions.
Andy Chen’s poem “My New Jersey” was published in Vol. 19, No. 1 of Poetry Northwest.
E.J. Koh’s novel The Liberators was a finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Awards.
Ina Cariño’s poem “Tell Me You Love Me Without Telling Me You Love Me” was published in Issue 2.2 of Where Meadows.
Carolina Ebeid’s poem “Assume the Role of Cassandra, Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
George Abraham’s poem “On the Eve of yet another Nakba, a Dream” was published in Scalawag Magazine.
The anthology We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu was released from Haymarket Books.
Duy Đoàn’s poem “Flight Attendant” was published in The Baffler.
Janine Joseph’s collection Decade of the Brain: Poems won the Library of Virginia’s 27th Annual Virginia Literary Award for Poetry.
Jee Leong Koh’s collection Inspector Inspector was shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore Literature Prize in Poetry.
Jee Leong Koh’s book Sample and Loop: A Simple History of Singaporeans in America was shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore Literature Prize in Creative Nonfiction.
Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s poem “plum rain” was published in Issue Thirty Eight of The Boiler Journal.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Magic Trick” was announced as a finalist for Best New Poets 2024.
August 2024
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Praise Kink,” Jess Yuan’s poem “Amtrak Again,” and Monica Youn’s interview with Diamond Forde was published in Issue 8 of Honey Literary.
Leena Aboutaleb’s poem “Portal: Cyclical” was featured as Poem of the Week on Split This Rock.
Brynn Saito’s conversation with Elizabeth Bolaños was published in Issue 49 of The Adroit Journal.
K-Ming Chang’s excerpt from Cecilia was published in Issue 49 of The Adroit Journal.
Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “Adult Acne” was published in Issue 48 of The Adroit Journal.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Catalog of Shadows Cast in Different Kinds of Light” was published in Issue 48 of The Adroit Journal.
Ching-In Chen was announced as a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate.
Chrysanthemum’s poem “Aubade for the Habana Inn” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Ching-In Chen received a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Epithalamium During Mating Season” and Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s poem “Spectacle” were published in Issue 50 of The Adroit Journal.
Chen Chen’s poem “Brooklyn is for Breakups” was published in Volume 33, Spring 2024 of Faultline.
Christine Shan Shan Hou’s poems “Across The Sea,” “Curtain Arousal,” and “A Sailor’s Tale” were published in Metatron Press.
Jess Yuan’s poem “Amtrak Again” was published in Issue 8 of Honey Literary.
July 2024
Ariel Chu’s short story “Antibachelorette" was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s poem “Our History Is Already Written (II): Chinatown (2019)” was published in Issue 19 of Apogee Journal.
Jessica Abughattas’ poems “Eureka!” and “Cinema” were published in the July/August 2024 issue of Poetry Magazine.
Asha Thanki’s debut novel A Thousand Times Before was released from Viking.
Kiran Bath’s debut poetry collection Instructions for Banno was released from Kelsey Street Press.
S. M. Sukardi’s short story “Year of the Rat” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Sunwoo Jeong’s short story “The Midnight Spa” was published in Uncanny Magazine.
Seema Yasmin’s debut novel Unbecoming was released from Simon & Schuster.
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu’s chapbook “Good Listener” was released from Frontier Poetry, the winner of their 2023 Breakthrough Chapbook Contest.
William Pei Shih’s story “Amsterdam” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Aarti Monteiro’s story “Small Green Shoots” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Christie Louie’s short story “You Could Hear Splinters” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Ariel Chu’s short story “Fulfillment Center” was published in Issue 12 of Rejoinder Magazine and was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize.
Marianne Chan’s collection Leaving Biddle City was released from Sarabande Books.
Moeko Fuji’s essay “The Eyes of Lacy” was published in The Baffler.
Christine Shan Shan Hou’s poem “Rock Garden of Infertile Possibilities” was published in Antiphony Journal.
June 2024
Pichchenda Bao’s poem “Whenever Anyone Tells Me I’m a Good Mother, I Want to Say” was published in Swwim.
Ghinwa Jawhari’s poems “Essential” and “Household” were published in Rusted Radishes.
Kazumi Chin’s poem “Nothing in the world belongs to me” was published in The Offing.
Sally Wen Mao’s short story “The Girl with Flies Coming Out Of Her Eyes” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Victoria Cho’s short story “A Recessive Trait” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk’s short story “Our Cecilia” was published in Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Jennifer S. Cheng was interviewed by Poetry Northwest.
Purvi Shah’s poem “You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious –” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Jessica Abughattas’ poems “The Last Real Cowboy” and “A Highway Runs Through Town,” Sumita Chakraborty’s poem “The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Twenty-One: ‘Ozymandias’,” and Matthew Olzmann’s poems “Epithalamium That Turns from the Garden,” “Elephant,” and “Matthew Olzmann Introduces Tobi Kassim” were published in Vol. XLVI No. 3 of The Kenyon Review.
Chen Chen’s poem “What do you remember about the earth?” and Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s poem “Portrait of My Mother as a Flamenco Dancer” were published in Issue 30 of Hunger Mountain.
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu was interviewed by Only Poems.
May 2024
Sejal Shah’s story “Ithaca Is Never Far” from her collection How to Make Your Mother Cry was excerpted in Literary Hub.
Sally Wen Mao’s short story collection Ninetails was released from Penguin Books.
Duy Đoàn’s poem “Leslie Cheung in A Chinese Ghost Story” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Terisa Siagatonu’s “Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Rajiv Mohabir’s “Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Unruly and Bittersweet, L.A.” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Joshua Nguyen’s poems “Ghazal: I wish, How I Wish,” “Spine Decompression Sonnet,” and “Nocturne: It’s the End Of It All, But I Still Felt The Most Lonely Before” were published in Issue 2 of Double Yolk.
Joshua Nguyen’s poem “American Lục Bát Sonnet For Extracting Your Mother’s Gray Hair” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Justin Rovillos Monson’s poem “Burden of Proof (MTHRLSSSDGHTR remix)” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem “Ghazal” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s poem “Dear Body-” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story “Audition” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Arumandhira Howard’s poem “reverse tongue abecedarian” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Lo Kwa Mei-en’s poem “Speculative Song” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Troy Osaki’s poem “Our Archipelago” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Marianne Chan’s poem “Love Song for Kien” was published in Boulevard.
Ocean Vuong’s poem “Theology” was published in The New Yorker.
Michelle Peñaloza won the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award for her poetry collection All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems, which is forthcoming from Persea Books in 2025.
Stephanie Isan’s short story “Hey, Cam Club” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Ayesha Raees’ poem “I Call From Everywhere to Everywhere” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Lehua M. Taitano’s poem “When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Indrani Sengupta’s poem “creation myth” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Theo Legro’s poem “ALL THERE IS” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Sumita Chakraborty’s poem “The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Seven: ‘Love Poem with Prosopopoeia’” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Hala Alyan’s poem “Siri as Mother” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Shireen Madon’s poem “First Prayer” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Ina Cariño’s poem “I can’t afford a whole universe” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.
Arumandhira Howard’s poem “Postcard from somewhere without Allah” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.
Pichchenda Bao’s poem “One Refugee Poet’s Origin Story” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Seema Yasmin’s short story “All the Weddings We Have Ever Been To” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Angela Peñaredondo’s poem “harvest” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Jess Yuan’s poem “Composition” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Fady Joudah’s poem “Echo #76” was published in The Baffler.
Kiran Bath’s poems “How to dream in colour (Deepu),” “What holds you over (Gudi),” and “When asked to dance (Basanti)” were featured on Brooklyn Rail.
Andy Chen’s poem “Fairy Tale with Chinese Mother” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Iris A. Law’s poem “Examen in San Francisco” was published in The Offing x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio.
Jordan Alam’s short story “Conviction” was published in the Joyland Magazine x Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.
Sejal Shah’s book How To Make Your Mother Cry was released from West Virginia University Press.
Moeko Fuji’s essay “Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-comfort Movie” was published in The New Yorker.
Karen Gu’s review of Julie Delporte’s Portrait of a Body was published in Brooklyn Rail.
Arumandhira Howard’s poem “Soft Black Girl Aesthetic” was featured as Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week.
April 2024
Chen Chen’s poems “recipe found in a winter boot,” “ode to completion & then some,” “Postsolsticemoodism,” “Corresponding with the Heterosexuals,” “Quintessence: the Soul (If It Exists),” “recipe for courage with a side of hot,” and “ode to definitions” were published in ONLY POEMS.
Chen Chen was named Poet of the Week and interviewed by ONLY POEMS.
Ava Chin’s memoir Mott Street, an ALA Notable Book, was released in paperback by Penguin Press.
Tariq Luthun’s poem “Field Notes” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “Palestine,” “Vancouver Ghazal With God and Orca,” “Moon Light,” and “A Mixed-Caste Queer Sings the Blues” were published in The Offing.
Seema Yasmin’s children’s book The ABCs of Queer History, illustrated by Lucy Kirk, was released from Workman Publishing.
Ghinwa Jawhari’s poem “the butcher” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.
Theo LeGro’s poem “The first time I pried a blade from your fist I told myself never again” was published in The Offing.
Kimberly Alidio was interviewed about her book Teeter and essay “On Being Porous” on the Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills podcast.
Fady Joudah was announced as the winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize by Poets & Writers.
Philip Metres’ article “In This Time of War: The Muse Refuses Silence” was published in the May/June 2024 issue of Poets & Writers.
Philip Metres’ poem “Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide” was published in Literary Hub.
Philip Metres’ book Fugitive/Refuge was released from Copper Canyon Press.
Hyejung Kook’s manuscript “Once is Not Enough” was a 2024 finalist for Wesleyan University Press’ Cardinal Poetry Prize.
Chrysanthemum’s poem “Biological Woman” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.
E.J. Koh’s The Liberators and C Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey were announced as finalists for the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “Bryde’s Whale,” “Fin Whale,” and “Pakicetus” were published in the Spring 2024 Issue of Sixth Finch.
Ina Cariño’s poem “The Stomach is the Origin of All Ghosts” was published in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month.
Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story “Tombs” was published in Issue 78 of American Short Fiction.
Yasmin Adele Majeed’s short story “Tunnels” was published in Joyland Magazine.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury was named a 2024 Whiting Award winner.
Divya Victor’s poem “Make/Do” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Fady Joudah’s poem “[...]” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Eddie Kim’s chapbook Tal’chum was a finalist for Harbor Review’s Chapbook Open Reading Period.
Chen Chen’s poem “To Whom It May Delight” was published on The Oxonian Review.
Sejal Shah’s essay “The Matter of Things” was published in the latest issue of Wellesley Magazine.
Sejal Shah won the 2024 March Danceness 2000s Edition Tournament with her essay “Serious Joy” about Amerie’s song “1 Thing.”
Jessica Abughattas, Hyejung Kook, Eugenia Leigh, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Joshua Nguyen, and Monica Sok’s poems were published in the anthology Braving the Body, co-edited by Pichenda Bao, Nicole Callihan, and Jennifer Franklin.
Joseph Han’s debut novel Nuclear Family 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Creative Writing: Prose.
Jess Yuan’s debut collection Slow Render was released from Airlie Press.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, No‘u Revilla, Kazim Ali, Monica Youn, Paisley Rekdal, and Paul Tran’s poems were published in the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón.
Em Dial’s poem “Chronic illnesses are like dreams, no one wants to hear about them.” was published in the Spring 2024 Issue of Muzzle Magazine.
Kiran Bath’s poems “The wedding as told by her later self (Deepu)” and “What to grow in the meantime (Dolly)” were published in Pigeon Pages.
Chen Chen’s poems “Quintessence: Questions of a Just Opened Pomegranate,” “Quintessence: a Cosmology,” “Quintessence: Ache,” “Quintessence: Cloud Correspondence,” “I Would Also Like to Mention This Quintessential Earthly Activity” were published in Paperbag.
March 2024
Hyejung Kook’s poem “Charm Against Blighted Ovum” was published in the latest issue of NELLE.
Hyejung Kook’s poem “prayer for healing” was featured on The Healing Verse Poetry Line.
Jess Yuan’s poem “Aquaculture Quartet” was published in Issue #45 of Cleaver.
Kimberly Alidio’s book Teeter won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry.
Sally Wen Mao’s debut story collection Ninetails: Nine Tales was included in Polygon’s most anticipated books for the spring.
Philip Metres and Jessica Jacobs’ interview in conversation with each other was published in Image.
Philip Metres’ translation of “The Well Bucket” by Dmitri Psurtsev was published in the latest issue of Waxwing.
Shamala Gallagher’s poem “‘The New York Times’ Says Aloe Is a Hoax” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Diana Khoi Nguyen is the March poet-in-residence at The Poetry Clinic.
R. A. Villanueva was announced as the 2024 Alice James Book Award winner for his manuscript, A Holy Dread.
Angela Peñaredondo was interviewed about their book nature felt but never apprehended on The Offing.
Jenny Tinghui Zhang was announced as a 2024 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation.
Chen Chen’s poems “going down singing” and “Crybaby Cowboy” were published in the Ohio State University’s The Journal.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion was named a 2024 Headlands Artist-in-Residence.
Patrick Rosal’s poem “Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Sejal Shah’s essay “Serious Joy” was published in March Danceness.
Sarah Thankam Mathews’s “A recipe for E’s avail” and Mayukh Sen’s “Julie, my child” were published in the inaugural issue of Veena.
Na Mee’s creative nonfiction pieces “This, right now,” “10,000 pieces,” and “The Last Hug” were published in Volume 49, No. 2/3 of Feminist Studies.
Rajiv Mohabir’s Whale Aria was announced as a 2023 finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in poetry.
Hazem Fahmy’s essay “The Zone of Interest: The banal dreams of Nazi settler colonialism” was published on Middle East Eye.
Laura Chow Reeve’s graphic nonfiction piece “Another Apocalypse” was published in The Offing.
Helene Achanzar’s poem “O My Worry, I Reach for Your Hand” was selected as a finalist for Best New Poets’ 2023 anthology.
Megan Pinto’s poem “Harvest” was published in Issue No. 37 of the LA Review of Books.
E.J. Koh was featured in the University of Washington Magazine for her debut novel The Liberators.
Iris Law’s poetry manuscript The Color of Morning was selected as a semifinalist for Copper Nickel and Milkweed Edition’s Jake Adam Young prize.
Troy Osaki’s poem “Reverse Lightning Rally at the US Embassy” was published in Issue 27 of Sugar House Review.
Chrysanthemum’s poem “Alias” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.
February 2024
Sruthi Narayanan’s short story “Question 18” was published in The Offing.
W. Todd Kaneko’s book Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored by Amorak Huey, was published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Em Dial’s poetry collection In the Key of Decay is forthcoming from Anstruther Books.
Matthew Salesses’s novel The Sense of Wonder is now available in trade paperback format.
Fady Joudah was interviewed by Aria Aber for The Yale Review.
Fady Joudah’s poem “[...]” was published in The Yale Review.
Fady Joudah was interviewed about his forthcoming collection [...] in The Boston Review.
MT Vallarta’s poem “Neighborhood Tour” was published in Issue 4 of Shō Poetry Journal.
Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Litany for My Father” was featured as poem of the week on Split This Rock.
Arumandhira Howard’s poem“6-month chip” was published on The Offing.
Arumandhira Howard’s poems “no planet for bad bitches” and “Home Invasion Punnett” and Theo LeGro’s poems “On My 34th Birthday I Steal Another Year,” “Dear John: The End,” “Dear John,” and “Dear John: Waiting” were published in Issue 7 of Honey Literary.
Matthew Salesses’s essay on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction was published on Literary Hub.
Philip Metres and Preeti Parikh were awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Poetry.
K-Ming Chang’s story “My Mother’s Stalker” was published in Guernica.
Jennifer S. Cheng’s poem “Shadow Study” was published in The Atlantic.
Jessica Abughattas’s poem “Dusk at the Codependence Inn” was published in the Museum of Americana.
Ploi Pirapokin’s story “If You Ask Me, I Shall Come (Kestallen, tuluvanye)” was published on Hive Mind.
Bobuq Sayed’s A Brief History of Australian Terror was released from Common Room.
Noʻu Revilla’s poems “In the future I write your name” and “Grandma gets flowers, granddaughter cuts grass,” and Tariq Luthun’s poem “You Can’t Call it Failure” were published in Volume 97, No. 2 of Prairie Schooner.
Theo LeGro’s poem “If it’s Not the Shape of Your Hands that Makes them Shake, Even the Wind is Poison” was published in the Raleigh Review.
Hanae Jonas’s debut poetry collection Softly Undercover was released from Mad Creek Books.
Lucy Tan’s short story “Falling Action in Hoboken” was published in the February 2024 issue of The Sun.
Michelle Peñaloza’s poems and collage were published in The Seventh Wave’s “On Tending” anthology.
Na Mee’s poem “The Fish” was published in Places Journal.
Na Mee’s essays “This, right now,” “10,000 pieces,” and “The Last Hug” were published in Volume 49, No. 2-3 of Feminist Studies.
K-Ming Chang’s short story “The Tornado” was published in Vol. XLVI, No. 1 of The Kenyon Review.
Duy Đoàn’s poems “Oxytocin” and “Buddy and Butterscotch, Water Goat in the Year of the Water Snake” were published in Vol. XLVI, No. 1 of The Kenyon Review.
Tiana Nobile’s poetry was featured in The New Orleans Arts Rag Volume 3: Breaking Down Boundaries.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion was a 2024 awardee of Asian American Arts Alliance’s What Can We Do? artist grant program.
Sahar Muradi’s poem “Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues” was featured as poem of the day on The Slowdown Show podcast.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Magic Trick” was published in Issue 92 of The Cortland Review.
Franny Choi has been appointed the Northampton Poet Laureate for the 2024–2026 term.
Diana Khoi Nguyen was interviewed about Root Fractures for the Between the Covers podcast.
January 2024
Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s poem “Mehfil” was featured as Poem of the Week at Split This Rock’s The Quarry.
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City won the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
Ava Chin’s memoir Mott Street was named a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023, San Francisco Chronicle’s Favorite Nonfiction of 2023, Library Journal Best Memoir of 2023, and a 2024 ALA Notable Book.
Philip Metres’s interview of Suncere Ali Shakur was published in To The Best of Our Knowledge.
Philip Metres’s interview on his forthcoming book Fugitive / Refuge was published in Green Linden Press.
Philip Metres’s poem “What Form Can Hold: The Pantoum as Vessel of/through Trauma” was published in Volume 53, Number 1 of The American Poetry Review.
Diana Khoi Nguyen reads her poem “Đổi Mới” from Root Fractures for Poets & Writers. She was also interviewed for their Ten Questions series.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s collection Root Fractures was released from Scribner Books.
Janice Lobo Sapigao’s essay “An Ode to I-5” was published in The Common.
George Abraham and Sarah Aziza’s “Letters From the Apocalypse” was published in The Nation.
Noah Arhm Choi’s poem “Adult Acne” and Jaz Sufi’s poem “Catalog of Shadows Cast In Different Kinds of Light” were published in Issue 48 of The Adroit Journal.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s collection Root Fractures was included in Literary Hub’s roundup of poetry books to read in 2024.
Ching-In Chen was appointed the new poet laureate for 2024-25 of Redmond, Washington.
Monica Ong was awarded a United States Artists fellowship.
Chen Chen’s poem “Midwinter, Missing Everybody” was published in Blue Mountain Review.
Ina Cariño’s poem “Keep Sweet” was published in Split Lip Magazine.
George Abraham, Hala Alyan, Tariq Luthun, and Fady Joudah had their poems featured in AAWW: The Margins’ folio of Love Poems by Poets of Palestinian Heritage.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Unforgiven Etymology” was published in the winter 2024 issue of Chestnut Review.
E. J. Koh was interviewed by World Literature Today.
Arumhandira’s poems “Hands” and “Without my enemy who would I be” were published in the latest issue of the Boiler Journal.
George Abraham was interviewed in the article “How Poetry Became a Tool of Resistance for Palestinians “ in TIME.
R. A. Villanueva’s poem “This dark is the same dark as when you close” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “The Earthlings” was featured as poem-of-the-day on Poets.org.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Minted” was published in AAWW: The Margins.
Ocean Vuong’s poem “To My Dog Tofu During the Blizzard of December 18th 2020” was published in Guernica.
Hala Alyan’s poem “Revision” was published in Guernica.
Christine Shan Shan Hou has two new poems, “My Poor Clitoris” and “Young Leopard Pillow on the Run,” published in the latest issue of Nat. Brut. These poems are part of a larger ekphrastic and reverse ekphrastic project with Vi Khi Nao.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “Northern Resident Orca” was published in Issue 47 of carte blanche.
William Pei Shih’s short story “The Paris of China” was published in the Boston Review.
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces was named one of The Poetry Question’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023.
Sally Wen Mao’s debut story collection NINETAILS: Nine Tales is forthcoming from Penguin Random House and is now available for pre-order.
Sejal Shah’s story collection How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions was named one of Electric Lit’s 75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024.
Duy Đoàn’s poem “Oxytocin” was published in Vol. XLVI, No. 1 of the Kenyon Review.
Bobuq Sayed’s short story “Ground Zero” was published in Guernica.
Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s poem “Feast” was published in AAWW: The Margins.
MT Vallarta’s collection What You Refuse to Remember was released from Small Harbor Publishing.