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 EST

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https://kaya.com/books/register-the-missing/Buy Register the Missing from Kaya Press.

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Ansley Moon (they/them) is the author of two poetry collections, Register the Missing, and How to Bury the Dead. Moon is an adoptee and a cofounder of The Starlings Collective. They live in Atlanta.  

Ryan Jafar Artes (he/she/they) is from Kolkata, India and Baltimore, Maryland. Their poetry is published online with Split This Rock, Panorama Journal, Twisted Tongue Press, and upEND Movement, and is printed in anthologies and zines. Ryan is the founder and host of The Adoptee Open Mic. linktr.ee/ryanartes

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She co-translated Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Translation Grand Prize from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Cancio-Bello has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation, and American Literary Translators Association, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and more. She is a member of the Starlings Collective, co-founder of the Adoptee Literary Festival, and Director of Programs and Marketing for Miami Book Fair.

Tiana Nobile 문영신 is the author of Cleave (Hub City Press, 2021). She is a Korean American adoptee, member of the The Starlings Collective, and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her writing has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Lit Hub, and Southern Cultures, among others. She lives with her family in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more information, visit www.tiananobile.com

Leah Silvieus was born in South Korea and adopted to the U.S. at three-months old. She grew up in small towns in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and western Colorado. She is the author of Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press), Season of Dares (Bull City Press), Arabilis (Sundress Publications) and co-editor with Lee Herrick of the poetry anthology, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books).

A transracial, intercountry adoptee born in Korea, Alice Stephens is the author of the novel, Famous Adopted People, as well as a book reviewer, essayist, and short story writer. Her historical novel, The Twain: A Tale of Nagasaki, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in February, 2027. She is currently working on a collection of autofictional short stories about her adoption.

Sullivan Summer is an independent scholar, critic, essayist, poet, podcaster, and adoptee rights advocate. Her US history and pop culture hot takes can be heard weekly on the podcasts Adoption Pop! and Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer. Her chapbook, Performance Anxiety, was published in 2025 by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, and she is a 2025 “Best of the Net” anthology nominee.