This Spring,  Managing Editor Neelanjana Banerjee worked with 13 amazing students at UCLA in the Asian American Studies 104B: Asian American Publishing With Kaya Press class. In addition to learning about the Asian American publishing industry and the challenges that can occur, these students also were tasked to create and publish a zine all on […]

Here we continue sharing resources and links that are helping us engage with social justice and Black Lives Matter movement issues. Click here to read the previous Black Lives Matter / Social Justice Links and Resources I. Neelanjana Banerjee, Kaya Press Managing Editor In general, I have closely been following the work of Patrisse Cullors, […]

At long last, Ed Lin’s debut YA novel David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College is available for pre-order, and will be published this September. UPDATE: David Tung will now be officially published in October, but available to pre-orders by September! In these times, when the day-to-day challenges […]

As part of Kaya’s dedication to join in the movement for systemic change and for Black Lives, we want to share resources for articles and tools that have been helping us learn and act at this time. We plan to make on-going posts like this and invite you to send us any resources or books […]

Black Lives Matter. Some truths are so self-evident that having to say them at all seems both inadequate and an indictment. Black lives—Black artists, thinkers, musicians, activists, struggles, and history—pried open the sense of possibility that gave birth to Kaya Press. Without the ideas, example, and radical acts of imagination gifted to us by Black […]