Every Spring, Kaya Press Managing Editor Neelanjana Banerjee teaches an exciting UCLA course in the UCLA Asian American Studies Department: Asian American Publishing with Kaya Press. Throughout the quarter, students learned the intricacies of the publishing industry and how an independent, Asian-diasporic press like Kaya navigates the industry. As their final, students produced and edited their […]
Gene Oishi, author of the novel-in-stories Fox Drum Bebop (winner of the 2016 Association of Asian American Studies Creative Writing Book Award), and the memoir In Search of Hiroshi: A Japanese American Odyssey, passed away on August 1st in Baltimore, surrounded by family, after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. We are heartbroken at […]
Kaya Press congratulates our very own Sunyoung Lee and Duncan Williams for receiving an Award of Excellence from the Japanese American National Museum for their work on the Ireicho. Lee and Williams served as the creative director and director of the project and were honored by the museum at its annual Benefit and Online Auction […]
Last Sunday, the Baltimore Sun’s Jonathan Van Harmelen published a review of Gene Oishi’s In Search of Hiroshi, emphasizing the book’s continued cultural relevance. The Baltimore Sun has a unique relationship with Oishi. The In Search of Hiroshi author was a reporter at the publication for 14 years where he covered city and state political […]
As part of Kaya’s commitment to the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the staff and board would like to amplify conversations around literature, colonization, and the possibilities of solidarity. In this post, we link to resources that have helped orient our thinking and actions, and we plan to share more on how […]
We are thrilled to announce that as part of our 30th anniversary celebrations, Alan Nakagawa will be the first-ever Kaya Press Artist-in-Residence. In our 30th year, we are thinking about new, future-oriented, multidisciplinary perspectives on the role of literature, publishing, and its archiving. During his residency, Nakagawa will conduct oral history sessions with Kaya Press […]
