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03/28

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

03/10

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

02/20

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 […]

02/01

02/01

We’re simply heartbroken by the devastation of recent wildfires. Kaya Press was originally planning a Lunar New Year gathering, but we have decided to turn it into a fundraiser for community who have been affected by the wildfires, including fellow local small press Hesse Press (run by Clare Kelly), and the Altadena Children’s Book Fund—to […]

09/16

09/16

 A Conversation with Yuka Igarashi: 9/16 @ 10AM-12PM PT / 12PM-2PM ET Register here. What does it mean to work as an editor today? Join Kaya Press and Yuka Igarashi, executive editor at Graywolf Press, for a conversation on the political and aesthetic roles of an editor and a close look at the editorial process […]

09/27

09/27

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 […]

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