Kaya’s Newest Release: Sutra and Bible Sutra and Bible is the companion catalog to the Japanese American National Museum’s exhibit, “Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration.” You can visit in person until November 27, 2022 or enjoy a video walkthrough of the gallery. This is the first museum exhibition to feature […]

Interview with Claire Light In this new series of author interviews, THROUGHLINES presents writers with standard questions that reveal where their releases fit in the world of academia. Claire Light is an activist and author, working in the Asian American and disabled communities. Monkey Around, her new novel written under the pen name Jadie Jang, […]

A List of Recent Books from API Diasporic Writers, 2018-2022 This incomplete list is one in a series of inventories THROUGHLINES is developing as an informal resource for students, researchers and writers to find adjacencies among established and new writers alike. For an updated list of titles, visit: http://kaya.com/throughlines/inventories/. 2018 Poetry Eye Level – Jenny Xie […]

Syllabus: Asian American Stories Porntip Israsena Twishime, University of Massachusetts Amherst Porntip Israsena Twishime is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she researches narratives about Asian Americans and Asian American storytelling as a mode of relation and knowledge production. I designed Asian American Stories as a […]

Welcome back to THROUGHLINES, Kaya Press’s newsletter that bridges the gap between contemporary Asian Pacific literature and scholars/educators. In our third issue, Porntip Israsena Twishimem shares her syllabus for Asian American Stories, and we continue with the second installment of our running inventory, taking stock of recent publications by API diasporic authors. Claire Light (pen name […]