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kaya events

03/25

Colonial Koreans Across Linguistic and National Boundaries | The Inaugural Conference of the March First Symposium on History and Democracy

March 25, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m | Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Hall (DML 240), with hybrid access available for those outside of LA. This conference seeks to broaden and integrate existing historical accounts of colonial Korea (1910–1945) with an understanding of Korean diasporic experiences in countries such as the United States, China, and […]

03/28

Kulhar Books Launch & Chai Happy Hour at AWP25

Please join us at a celebratory Happy Hour for Kulhar Books, launching this year from Kaya Press — hoping to publish, innovative, overlooked, and WEIRD books coming out of the South Asian Diaspora. This is also a Happy Hour meet-up event for South Asians at AWP, and a special invite out to LA South Asian […]

03/10

First Pass: A Conversation with James Yeh

A Conversation with James Yeh: 3/10 @ 12PM PT / 3PM ET Join Kaya Press for a conversation with James Yeh—writer and editor at Columbia University—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close look at the editorial process behind Francisco González’s “Serranos”! Register at bit.ly/firstpass3. James Yeh is a writer, editor, […]

02/20

First Pass: A Conversation with Vivian Lee

A Conversation with Vivian Lee: 2/20 @ 1PM PT / 4PM ET Join Kaya Press for a conversation with Vivian Lee—senior editor at Little, Brown—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close look at the editorial process behind Curtis Chin’s memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant! Register […]

 

author news

Kim San
Colonial Koreans Across Linguistic and National Boundaries | The Inaugural Conference of the March First Symposium on History and Democracy

March 25, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m | Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Hall (DML 240), with hybrid access available for those outside of LA. This conference seeks to broaden and integrate existing historical accounts of colonial Korea (1910–1945) with an understanding of Korean diasporic experiences in countries such as the United States, China, and […]

Rajiv Mohabir
I Will Not Go Launch — Official Brooklyn Book Fest 2024 Bookends Event

Join us to celebrate the publication of the groundbreaking new anthology I Will Not Go: Translations, Transformations, and Chutney Fractals (Kaya Press, October 2024). Edited by Rajiv Mohabir, I Will Not Go features 17 Indo-Caribbean poets who experiment with their own personal interpretations of two famous Chutney songs. RSVP Here. The book launch will feature […]

Multiple Authors
Kaya Press and UCLA present: Mosaic of Stories

Every Spring, Kaya Press Managing Editor Neelanjana Banerjee teaches an exciting UCLA course in the UCLA Asian American Studies Department: Asian American Publishing with Kaya Press. Throughout the quarter, students learned the intricacies of the publishing industry and how an independent, Asian-diasporic press like Kaya navigates the industry. As their final, students produced and edited their […]