In Fox Drum Bebop (Kaya Press, April 2014), author Gene Oishi gives us glimpses into the life of Hiroshi Kono, from the time Hiroishi is eight-years-old and living in rural California to his time in an Arizona internment camp and far into his adult life, exploring the reverberations of war and trauma. This week in […]
Kaya’s 2013-14 Welcome Back event featured mini-writing sessions (like the one about fate and the day of your birth inspired by Kaya’s forthcoming American Canyon by Amarnath Ravva) and a prompt where all participants sucked on a lime for five seconds, led by Fractal editors. There was also a mini-chapbook making workshop by Gold Line […]
Literature lovers far & wide: Come visit the Kaya Press and USC Master of Professional Writing Program’s SMOKIN’ HOT LIT LOUNGE (Booth 380 in Founders Park) at the LA Times Festival of Books! Dedicated to books, writing, independent publishing, and FUN: our booth features interactive lit activities for all ages, LA’s finest small presses, and a […]
At Kaya’s Books + Bites Tasting Party, you’ll try foods from around the world paired with our books, to get a taste of the Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature that Kaya has been dedicated to publishing since 1994. Kaya will be releasing five books of fiction, poetry, and drama this Fall, and three in […]
Saddle up and join us for a comedic tale of a Chinese American in the Wild West Free and Open to the Public:The town of Rough and Ready is about to get crazy. Hop Fong has resigned himself to a quiet life as a Chinese laundryman. But a secret visitor, a wanted slave girl, threatens […]
From South Asian Kenyans struggling under the threat of expulsion, to Samoan girls on the cusp of womanhood, to a word-obsessed, multiracial Aussie piecing together his family’s past through fragments of letters and half-forgotten stories. The characters found in Kaya Press books are as provocative and nuanced as the writers who give them voice. Celebrate […]
