Join poet Jenny Liou for a reading from Muscle Memory, her debut collection from Kaya Press, which grapples with violence and identity, beginning with the chain-link enclosure of the prizefighter’s cage and radiating outward into the diasporic sweep of Chinese American history. Liou will be in conversation with Jess Ng, Muay Thai champion and leader of self-defense classes. After […]

Have you been searching for your history only to discover that what you’ve been told is not true and parts have been left out? Have you ever asked a question of your past only to be met with silence? Do you carry memories of experiences you never had? Join Kaya Press author, Q.M. Zhang, for Writing into […]

Please join us at the Samsung 837 Theater in New York for our upcoming event Intersections of Poetry, Art & Identity, featuring multimedia artist and Kaya author of book of the other Truong Tran, with Catalina Ouyang and Margaret Rhee. Together, they will take over this space, present their work on the epic three-story screen, […]

Sign up a special writing workshop for Asian Pacific Islander American next-gen writers, meaning those who are trying to trace their family histories across the Pacific and beyond. Led by Q.M. Zhang, author of Accomplice to Memory. Friday May 13th, 4 – 5:30 EDT [1 – 2:30 PST] — on Zoom.  $20 registration — register here. Q.M. […]

Join Kaya and USC Visions & Voices at our upcoming event “Belonging as Survival: Creativity, Activism, and Community.” Join us on Friday, April 1st at 7p.m. online! What sounds inspire your activism? What flavors do you connect with your creative pathways? What does belonging feel like and how does it help us survive? Join us […]