Join the Kundiman Pacific Northwest Regional Group for a New Books Virtual Reading celebrating new book releases from the Pacific Northwest community. This free event will feature readings by nawa angel a.h., author of Waling Waling Palpitations (First Matter Press), Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho, author of The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street: A Memoir (Douglas & McIntyre), Kalehua Kim, author of Mele (Trio House Press), Jennifer Perrine, author of Beautiful Outlaw (Kelsey Street Press), and M. K. Thekkumkattil, author of The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals (The Feminist Press).
The event will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, September 15th, 2026, from 7:00–8:30 PM PST. To receive the Zoom link, please sign up here in advance.
About the Readers:
nawa angel (they them), who performs sometimes as Moonyeka, is a chimeric creator with a multi-embodied presence in performance, qt nightlife, eco-erotics, writing, experimental media, teaching artistry and divination praxis. They center kilig as a compass to conjure erotically charged revolutions with animistic unapology, risque', and mixed-Ilocano bakla imagination. In their mundane-rest-joy strategies, they're probably yearning to make sinigang, asking the Boy Deers to kindly not eat all of the leaves from their plant starts, practicing blowing bubbles out their nose in a big body of water, or playing their current fave video game: Cyberpunk 2077.
Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho is a Taiwanese Canadian writer, whose award-winning short stories and personal essays have been published in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street: A Memoir (Douglas & McIntyre, 2026) is her first book. A strong champion of literary community, Wiley founded the Diasporic Writers Salon and is a member of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, The Writers' Union of Canada, and the North Shore Writers’ Association, where she regularly organizes and hosts reading events and writing workshops. www.wileyweichiunho.com
Kalehua Kim is the author of Mele, winner of the inaugural Pasifika Poetry Prize awarded by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. She was named one of Poets & Writers featured debut poets for 2025 and was a 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Calyx, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal.
Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of five award-winning books of poetry: Beautiful Outlaw, Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Their other recent work appears in the anthologies Best Small Fictions, Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times, and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection. JP lives in Portland, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, guide nature and forest therapy retreats, and manage an equity and environmental justice program for the state of Oregon. www.jenniferperrine.org
M. K. Thekkumkattil is a trans, disabled, kinky writer and nurse whose liberation is bound up with Palestinian liberation. They have received support from SmokeLong Quarterly, Tin House, Queer Art Mentorship, Lambda Literary, VONA, and Writing by Writers. Their work can be found in the essay collection, The Sexuality of Care, the chapbook Weaving Liberation as well as in Black Warrior Review, smoke and mold, Year Round Queer, and In the Future There Are No Hospitals.