Congratulations to our fellows & Faculty!
Announcements are posted in the order they are received. Kundiman Fellows and Faculty are invited to send updates to christie@kundiman.org.
December 2025
Bobuq Sayed’s short story “Good Education” was published in Joyland Magazine.
Carlina Duan’s poem “I Face East (Ars Poetica)” was published by Poets.org and featured as the Poem-a-Day.
Helene Achanzar’s poems “Last Dinner at Nightwood” and “On Trails” were published in Issue 1 of Either/Or.
November 2025
Fatimah Asghar’s poem “my father was not the eldest” and Patrick Rosal’s poem “Prayer for When I’m Lost” were both published in the Autumn 2025: The Natural Rhythms of Hip-Hop issue of Orion Magazine.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Ghazal for the A Word” was published in Swamp Pink.
Jean Chen Ho’s essay “On Loneliness and Longing in Upstate New York” was published in Literary Hub.
Aria Aber’s novel Good Girl, Asha Thanki’s novel A Thousand Times Before, and Ocean Vuong’s novel The Emperor of Gladness were nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award.
Annesha Mitha’s short story “Valedictorian” was published in The Masters Review.
Sanam Sheriff’s poems “Trans/figuration” and “Trans/lucency” were published in the November 2025 issue of Poetry Magazine.
William Pei Shih’s short story “Tenth Year” was published in the Winter 2025 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review.
Na Mee was named a finalist for the 2025 Granum Prize.
October 2025
Jess Yuan’s poem “Other Lives” won the 2025 Gulf Coast Prize, judged by Tarfia Faizullah.
Na Mee and Troy Osaki were longlisted for the 2025 Granum Prize.
Cathy Linh Che’s collection Becoming Ghost was named a finalist for the 2025 National Book Awards for Poetry.
Megha Majumdar’s novel A Guardian and a Thief was named a finalist for the 2025 National Book Awards for Fiction.
Dujie Tahat’s poem “All-American Ghazal” was published by Poets.org and featured as the Poem-a-Day.
William Pei Shih’s story “The Masterclass” (originally published in the Los Angeles Review) was included in the Best American Short Stories 2025.
Hieu Minh Nguyen’s poem “SoMa” was published by Poets.org and featured as the Poem-a-Day.
Aria Aber’s poems “Postcard from Kabul” and “Providence” were published in Equator Magazine.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “How Do You Say?” was published in BOOTH.
September 2025
Marianne Chan’s poem “A Kind of Goodness,” Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “पार,” “Cross,” and “Great Blue Heron at Burnett Bridge,” and Patrick Rosal’s poem “Raucous Prayer” were published in the September 2025 issue of POETRY Magazine.
Cathy Linh Che’s collection Becoming Ghost was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Awards for Poetry.
Megha Majumdar’s novel A Guardian and a Thief was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Awards for Fiction.
Na Mee’s essay “Moon Boots” was published in the September 2025 issue of The Sun.
Ryan Lee Wong’s essay “The Cop, the Monk, and the Elephant” was published in Issue 2 of Landscapes.
Sarah Gazhal Ali’s collection Theophanies was selected by Jaki Shelton Green as the 2024 winner of the Julie Suk Award.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “First Video” was published in Issue 39 of Wildness.
Preeti Parikh’s poems “"संदूक | The Trunk," "Of the [ ] | Cinema," and "Of the Body | Woman And [ ]" were published in Muse India.
August 2025
Sanam Sheriff was named the winner of the 2025 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for their manuscript Humہم which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2026.
Chrysanthemum’s poem “Reading Ellison on Ellison Avenue” was published in Shade Literary Arts.
Paul Tran’s poem “Eros” was was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Monica Sok’s poem “Self-Portrait as War Museum Captions” was featured as Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week.
Sarah Ghazal Ali and Carlina Duan were finalists for the 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion’s essay “How Pantoums Can Tell Intergenerational Stories,” writing prompt “Writing Prompt: Pantoum,” and poems “how we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (i)” and “how we survived: 爺爺’s pantoum (ii)” were published in the July/August issue of POETRY Magazine.
July 2025
Dujie Tahat received a 2025 Poet Laureate Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets.
Muriel Leung’s novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster was named a finalist in Bisexual Fiction for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards.
The anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi, was longlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards.
Aria Aber’s novel Good Girl and Susanna Kwan’s novel Awake in the Floating City were longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize.
Katie Yee’s debut novel Maggie; or, A Man and Woman Walk Into a Bar was released from Summit Books.
Chen Chen’s poems “A Conversation With My Father” and “A Conversation About His Father” were published in Issue 1 of The Aftershock Review.
Rona Luo’s poem “My life as silver” was shortlisted for sinθ Magazine’s 7th Annual Writing Competition, and will be published in Issue 35 of sinθ Magazine.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s collection Theophanies was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection 2025 by the Forward Arts Foundation.
Katie Yee was interviewed about her debut novel Maggie; or, A Man and Woman Walk Into a Bar in the online literary magazine Sunny’s Journal.
Troy Osaki’s poem “Immigration and Naturalization Service” was published in Issue 47.1 of the Indiana Review.
Chen Chen’s essay “How To Get Up in the Morning” was published in the Summer & Fall 2025 issue of Poetry Northwest.
Ocean Vuong was interviewed about his novel The Emperor of Gladness by Connecticut Public.
June 2025
Andy Chen’s poem “The 1st Exemplar of Filial Piety” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.
Hyejung Kook’s poem “Orange You Glad” was published in the Spring 2025 issue of Shenandoah.
Kimiko Hahn was appointed as the 2025–2027 Poet Laureate of New York State.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s poem “Image Study” and Ina Cariño’s poem “Forgotten Body” were published in Issue 45.1 of Pleiades.
Chen Chen was interviewed in Writer’s Style Guide.
River 瑩 瑩 Dandelion was named a 2025 Ragdale Artist-in-Residence.
Karissa Chen’s novel Homeseeking was named one of Real Simple’s “27 Best Books of 2025 (So Far!)”
Prageeta Sharma’s poem “Passions of the Void” was published in the Atlantic.
Aria Aber’s novel Good Girl was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025.
leena aboutaleb’s poem “Hijacked Interiors” was named a finalist for Outstanding Speculative Poetry in the 2025 Ignyte Awards.
Stephanie Isan’s short story “The Real Chupa Chup” was published in Vol. 24, No. 1 of Five Points Journal.
Troy Osaki’s poems “Crystal City Family Internment Camp,” “Orange Grove,” and “Two Years Into Camp” were published in the Summer 2025 issue of Seattle Met.
Hala Alyan’s poem “Half-Life in Exile” was featured on The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast.
The Italian translation of Asha Thanki’s novel A Thousand Times Before was named a “Most Anticipated Novel” by Today: Italy.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poems “Dancing In the Moonlight” and “Winter Trails” were published in Volume 18, No. 2 of Diode Poetry Journal.
Karen Gu interviewed Anelise Chen about her memoir Clam Down for BOMB Magazine.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Ode to My Lover’s Sequined Dress” was published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
S.M. Sukardi received the Anne Searle Bent Spiritual Art Fellowship from Ragdale.
May 2025
“Public Obscenities: An Excerpt” from Shayok Misha Chowdury’s play was published in AAWW’s The Margins.
Pichchenda Bao’s poem “To the Man Speeding Through the Crosswalk” was published on Cultural Daily.
Tarfia Faizullah’s poem “Wait Until It Grows Roots” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Susanna Kwan’s novel Awake in the Floating City was released from Pantheon Books.
The anthology Heaven Looks Like Us, edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi, was released from Haymarket Books.
Kiran Bath’s collection Instructions for Banno was selected as a Silver Award winner for the 2025 Nautilus Awards.
Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Willow, Stop Weeping” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s collection Mothersalt was released from Alice James Books.
Franny Choi’s poem “Strawberry Moon,” Li-Young Lee’s poem “One Heart,” and Tiana Nobile’s poem “/ˈmīɡrənt/” were published in the anthology Poetry Is Not a Luxury, released from Washington Square Press.
David Mura’s poem “Vegas Rave Muse” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s poem “Slow Violence” and Paul Tran’s poem “A Force of Nature” were published in the May 2025 issue of Poetry Magazine.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s collection Theophanies was selected as the Poetry Winner, Gold by the 94th Annual California Book Awards.
Jenny Xie’s poem “Le Temps Mort” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
leena aboutaleb’s experimental short film “Oracle,” shot with Youssef ElNahas, premiered at Nusca Festival in Italy.
Karen Gu’s review of María Medem’s Land of Mirrors was published in Brooklyn Rail.
antmen pimentel mendoza’s poems “Solo Travel (Hans Men’s Sauna)” and “The Oil of Every Pearl or Poem Ending in a Trough at a Now Defunct Piss Play Party” were published in the No. 9 of & Change.
Asha Thanki’s novel A Thousand Times Before was named the Balcones Prize Winner in Fiction.
Ocean Vuong’s novel TheEmperor of Gladness was published by Penguin Random House.
April 2025
Zoe Leonard’s short story “Commissioned” and Cathy Linh Che’s poems “‘I love the smell of napalm…’: Remix” and “Live-Stream” were published in AAWW’s The Margins.
Mai Der Vang was interviewed by Elizabeth Bolaños for Issue 53 of The Adroit Journal.
Ina Cariño’s poem “What’s the First Word in ‘Illegal Immigrant’?” won the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s collection Theophanies was selected as the Poetry Winner, Gold for the 2025 California Books Award.
Jessica Abughattas’ poem “After the Attempt, Thanksgiving” and Marianne Chan’s poems “When I Was Your Age,” “Anniversary,” and “My Male Friends Tell Me” were published in Vol. 23, No. 2 of Five Points Journal.
Cathy Linh Che’s collection Becoming Ghost was released from Washington Square Press.
Cathy Linh Che was interviewed by Lisa Kwon for Impulse.
Troy Osaki’s poems “My Grandparents Plant a Pear Tree in the Backyard of their Home in Northeast Portland” and “Minidoka is the First Camp Your Grandma is Incarcerated in, Crystal City is the Second” were published in the anthology The Gate of Memory, released from Haymarket Books.
Jean Chen Ho’s short story “Kiki and Tombu’ was published in The Sewanee Review.
Hanae Jonas’ collection Softly Undercover was named a finalist for the 2025 California Books Award in poetry.
Sarah Kay’s collection A Little Daylight Left was published by The Dial Press.
Megan Tabaque’s play The Rink at the End of the World was featured in UCSB’s 2025 Launchpad Amplify Series.
Sanam Sheriff’s poem “Lover, My Country” was published in The Rumpus.
March 2025
Sumita Chakraborty’s poem “The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Eleven: ‘How Will You Begin?’” was published in The Nation.
leena aboutaleb’s poem “Tears of the Kingdom” and Jessica Abughattas’ poems “Spring in Altadena” and “Cottage Industry” were published in Issue 3 of Basket Magazine.
leena aboutaleb’s short story “Lush” was published in AAWW’s The Margins.
Kiran Bath was interviewed by Megan Fernandez for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Matthew Olzmann’s poem “Olympus” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Failed Poems” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Cathy Linh Che was interviewed by Dr. Valerie Nyberg for Lunch Ticket.
Rajiv Mohabir’s poem “New York Floriography” was published in Volume 19, Issue 2 of Poetry Northwest.
Em Dial was interviewed by the Period City Journal.
Preeti Parikh’s poem “The [ ] of Form” was published in The Last Milkweed Anthology released by Tupelo Press.
Arumandhira Howard was featured as Poet of the Week on Only Poems.
Jaz Sufi’s poem “Etymology of Borders” was published in Split This Rock.
Lucy Tan’s short story "Morning Gold" was published in Issue 80 of American Short Fiction.
Mai Der Vang’s poetry collection Primordial was published by Graywolf Press.
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez was interviewed by Bulb Culture Collective for the collective’s Shine a Light Series.
February 2025
Andy Chen’s poem “You Walk Up To The Park and There’s One Chinese Guy” was published in Split Lip.
Dujie Tahat has been selected as the 2025–2026 Seattle Civic Poet.
Jessica Abughattas’ poem “Beautiful Altadena” was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Suman Chhabra’s poems “A Fool’s Pradakshina” and “Time’s Camp,” and Shruti Swamy’s short story “Apples” were published in the Winter 2024 issue of Georgia Review.
Em Dial’s poem “Touchy Feely” was published in Issue 68 of The Ex-Puritan.
January 2025
Marianne Chan’s collection Leaving Biddle City was named Winner of the 2025 ALA Notable Book Award for Poetry.
Troy Osaki’s poem “Ode to the Basketball Sailing Over a Barbed-wire Fence” was published in Issue 52 of The Adroit Journal.
Aria Aber was interviewed by Emily Collins, and Marianne Chan was interviewed by David Roderick for Issue 52 of The Adroit Journal.
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello’s poem “The Houseguest” was featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org.
Ina Cariño’s poems “Ode to Lakapati” and “Salt” and Purvi Shah’s poem “Uncolonial this shelter, home my skin, bring me ocean & a song of tangling limbs” were published in Issue 89 of The Bellingham Review.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s collection Theophanies was selected as the winner for the 2025 Poetry for the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry.
George Abraham’s poem “Autoconfessional in Charcoal,” Hala Alyan’s poem “Return Ghazal,” Carolina Ebeid’s poem “Of a Photo,” and Jess Rizkallah’s poem “Anyway” were published in Issue 37.1 of Gulf Coast.
Karissa Chen was interviewed by Good Morning America who selected her novel Homeseeking as their January Book Club pick.
Aria Aber’s novel Good Girl was released from Hogarth Books.
Karissa Chen was interviewed about her novel Homeseeking by The Rumpus.
Karissa Chen’s novel Homeseeking was released from Putnam Books.
Andy Chen’s poem “Longing” which was selected as the winner for the Emerging Writer’s Contest by Ploughshares.
Marianne Chan’s poem “Love Poem” was published in the Winter 2025 issue of Sixth Finch.
E.J. Koh’s novel The Liberators was shortlisted for the 2025 PNBA Book Award.
Andy Chen was named runner-up for the Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers.
Chen Chen’s poem “All I Love” was published in Issue 46, Vol. 2 of the Indiana Review.
Cathy Linh Che’s film We Were the Scenery won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival.
Theo LeGro’s collection Don’t Let It Kill You was named the winner of the The Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.