September 25, 2026 | Friday, 7-9PM | Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space (529 W 20th St Room 6E, New York, NY 10011) | RSVP HERE! Join us for a conversation with three Asian Pacific American editors about shifting the publishing industry from the inside out! Behind every groundbreaking book is an editor making critical […]
Join us to celebrate the publication of Ansley Moon’s new poetry collection Register the Missing — the first book from Kaya’s new South Asian diasporic literature imprint: Kulhar Books. Readers include: Ryan Artes, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Alice Stephens, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus, and Sullivan Summer. Thursday September 17 | 5 pm PST // 8 pm […]
June 6-7, 2026 | 10AM – 5PM | SCI-Arc (960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013) Come find us at LITLIT, a two-day book fair celebrating independent publishing hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books! We’ll be there all weekend, so stop by at our table any time throughout the festival to chat […]
May 17, 2026 | Sunday @ 3:30PM | Purgatory (675 Central Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207) Shake off the winter with Kaya Press as Literaoke returns to NYC! Come see performers sing their hearts out to their favorite karaoke bangers and then read from their work. Featuring: Helyn Chen-Zheng IG: @helynchenzheng.pdf Helyn Chen-Zheng is a writer […]
Join us to celebrate the publication of Ansley Moon’s new poetry collection Register the Missing — the first book from Kaya’s new South Asian diasporic literature imprint: Kulhar Books. Readers include: Ryan Artes, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Alice Stephens, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus, and Sullivan Summer. Thursday September 17 | 5 pm PST // 8 pm […]
Poet Koon Woon passed away, surrounded by friends and loved ones, August 13, 2026. Koon was a joy to publish, and we have many good memories of his generosity and care, and will always remember fondly walking around a rainy Lake View Cemetery where Koon pointed out Bruce Lee’s gravesite and then read poems at […]
As part of our commitment to collective possibility, we are launching our first-ever online workshop series, Creative Contagion. Featuring Kaya writers, translators, editors, and community members, we seek to create an accessible and open space to experiment, generate new work, and sow the seeds of new possibilities. Workshops will be hosted on Zoom and […]
