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KSIP alumna Nona Leon (USC ’15) is the Book Publicist at Rare Bird and the 2014 Audio/Hachette Books at Hachette Book Group. Nona dropped by our KSIP meeting two weeks ago to share her insights and experience in the publishing industry beyond Kaya! How did you first get involved with Kaya Press, and how did […]

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We recently interviewed Nicholas Wong, author of Crevasse, for our December issue of our newsletter. Check out his insights into the translation process, identifying as a “global poet,” what #LitinColor means in Hong Kong. What context—if any—would you give to readers before they delve into Crevasse? Especially for those who may not typically read poetry, how […]

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We love to see our authors having an international impact. Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of ROUGHHOUSE, spoke at the Singapore Writers Festival. He participated in two events. The first, titled “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” invited authors to share their favorite anecdote or reading based on the theme. The second, titled “Real to Print: The Burden of Experience,” explored how […]

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This past September, we hosted a booth at the literary extravaganza that is the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York. Our return to the Festival after not participating for several years was definitely a hit, largely due to our diverse plethora of featured activities!   Highlights from the Brooklyn Book Festival: 1. Kaya and Kundiman […]

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Last Wednesday we celebrated Nicholas Wong & his poetry collection Crevasse at Stories Books & Cafe! Although Nic was in Hong Kong, the celebration was still a success. Zoë Ruiz hosted a reading in which Los Angeles writers Lisa Locascio, Douglas Manuel, Siel Ju, and Brandon Som gave moving readings of their favorite poems from Crevasse. These writers also wowed the audience with their own fiction and […]

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How did you get involved with the smokin’ hottest press in the world? I was working as an editor of the now-defunct AsianWeek newspaper in San Francisco when Ed Lin’s Waylaid came across my desk. I thought it was one of the best books I had ever read, and still count it as one of […]