Recently a book launch for Nicholas Wong’s Crevasse took place at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. This festival is an annual event held over 10 days, featuring established and emerging writers from around the world. Wong’s bilingual reading took place at Aesop and was attended by 40-50 literary enthusiasts. He read the poems “Neighbor” and “Minor Bodies” from Crevasse in […]

Nicholas Wong is a poet and teacher and even a “fire-starter,” according to Time Out: Hong Kong. His poetry collection Crevasse, which Tarfia Faizullah described as “poetry that is unashamed to be relentless” and Ocean Vuong called “a book of seared seeking, a restlessness that opens,” is Kaya’s most recent release. In celebration of this book, Kaya asked him a few questions […]

Last month marked the publication of The Sympathizer, Kaya board member Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel. We are so happy for him that his novel has made it to four bestseller lists of independent booksellers associations, and has also been reviewed on the Daily Beast and the New York Times. In addition, Nguyen has also written an article on […]

Did you make it out to the SMOKIN’ HOT INDIE LIT LOUNGE at the LA Times Festival of Books this year? If you missed out, the Internet is abuzz with praise for our booth and descriptions to boot–giving you the opportunity to (re-)live the experience! Check out what the Los Angeles Times had to say […]

In honor of National Poetry Month, NBC News released a list of Asian-American poets to look out for, including our very own Nicholas Wong! The piece talks about Nicholas’s poetry transcends language and place while taking on issues ranging from masculinity and sexuality to race and politics. You can read the entire piece, including a […]