Join a wild rumpus in celebration of the release of the latest issue of the Asian American Literary Review and Kaya Press’ book release of Shoson Nagahara’s Lament in the Night with translator Andrew Leong! Other special guests include poets Ed Bok Lee and Bao Phi from Coffee House Press, and editors from the AALR […]

From South Asian Kenyans struggling under the threat of expulsion, to Samoan girls on the cusp of womanhood, to a word-obsessed, multiracial Aussie piecing together his family’s past through fragments of letters and half-forgotten stories. The characters found in Kaya Press books are as provocative and nuanced as the writers who give them voice. Celebrate […]

December 5th, 6-9 PM, FREE. ARC Studios and Gallery, SF Hang with our own Shailja Patel at Kearny Street Workshop’s Ladies Who’ve Launched party! KSW and APICC celebrate the recent releases of innovative books by poets Shailja Patel and Barbara Jane Reyes with a reading and party! Patel’s Migritude puts her celebrated solo performance into […]

Pageturner Festival, Sunday Nov. 7, Powerhouse Arena, BKLYN We’re raising a little hell with the Asian American Writers Workshop this Sunday in Brooklyn – take the F train to DUMBO and we’ll riot together. The second annual Pageturner Festival will feature Kaya authors Luis Francia and Samantha Chanse. Also in effect: Amitava Kumar, Meena Alexander […]

November 11th, 6.30pm, San Francisco, CA Watch Shailja Patel perform at Global Fund For Women’s “Resist, Reclaim, Restore” with Isabel Allende! Spend an evening with the Global Fund for Women. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation between acclaimed novelist and philanthropist Isabel Allende and Kavita N. Ramdas, former CEO of the Global Fund for Women. […]