We’re simply heartbroken by the devastation of recent wildfires. Kaya Press was originally planning a Lunar New Year gathering, but we have decided to turn it into a fundraiser for community who have been affected by the wildfires, including fellow local small press Hesse Press (run by Clare Kelly), and the Altadena Children’s Book Fund—to […]
Join us to celebrate the publication of the groundbreaking new anthology I Will Not Go: Translations, Transformations, and Chutney Fractals (Kaya Press, October 2024). Edited by Rajiv Mohabir, I Will Not Go features 17 Indo-Caribbean poets who experiment with their own personal interpretations of two famous Chutney songs. RSVP Here. The book launch will feature […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a reading and conversation with four outstanding Chinese writers whose works upend the notion of a monolithic Chinese identity and uncover a much more complicated story about the diversity of Chinese diasporic experiences in America: 2017 National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko (The Leavers), crime-writer-turned-YA-author Ed Lin (David Tung Can’t Have a […]
