Matt Huynh is an Australian-born New-York-based artist who illustrated Sam Chanse’s play Lydia’s Funeral Video. This week we got to interview him and ask about his creative processes and inspirations. Be sure to check out his artwork on his website and in Sam’s book! Lydia’s Funeral Video is such a unique and innovative book-form collaboration—how did you, Sam Chanse, and […]
Congratulations to Kaya author Gene Oishi who won the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Best Book Awards in Creative Writing: Prose for his novel Fox Drum Bebop! The selection committee remarked in their citation: “Gene Oishi said in a recent interview that it took him 50 years to write his first novel, which we […]
It’s December, and you know what that means. Hang up those stockings and pile those presents under the tree! (Psst, books of color are the best stocking stuffers.) Kaya Press wishes you a warm and happy holiday season! Props to our intern Richard An for making this festive GIF of our staff!
Kaya Press is happy to announce that Cathy Linh Che will be joining our team as Publicity & Events Associate starting in January! Cathy is amazing poet and the Managing Director of Kundiman. Here she is with Kaya poet Nic Wong in Singapore, where they had a recent reading, eating kaya toast. (Kaya toast is a […]
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 […]
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 […]
