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 […]

Congrats to Rajiv Mohabir for winning the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for his translation of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara! We are thrilled to celebrate Rajiv’s recognition by the distinguished Academy of American Poets! Rajiv is in company with other brilliant poets who were honored in a total of nine categories […]

Congrats to Mimi Lok, author of the story collection Last of Her Name, for winning the  California Book Awards’s Silver Medal in Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Last of Her Name continues to receive warm acclaim, as winner of the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize for debut short story collection, and was also […]

Welcome to the inaugural issue of THROUGHLINES, a convening of writers, scholars and readers working at the intersection between Asian Pacific Studies and contemporary American literature. THROUGHLINES provides a resource for scholars faced with assembling syllabi for Asian American or any diverse Literature classes only to find themselves reaching for outdated texts, as well as […]