This past Monday, Sam Chanse launched her California mini tour for Lydia’s Funeral Video at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park! It was an intimate evening of music by Carry Hatchet–his first ever live performance–and the talented Lilly Flor del Valle. These were followed by a series of powerful readings from Jessie Bliss, including one […]
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 […]
