Tag: books

  • Retelling the Skies: An Interview with Monica Ong

    Retelling the Skies: An Interview with Monica Ong

    Monica Ong is an Asian American visual poet and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press, 2015) and Planetaria (Proxima Vera, 2025). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Scientific American, Hyperallergic, ctrl+v, The Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She received the Kore Press First Book Award in Poetry in 2014,…

  • A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che

    A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che

    Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips…

  • Grief as Plot: A Review of Kelly Murashige’s The Yomigaeri Tunnel

    Grief as Plot: A Review of Kelly Murashige’s The Yomigaeri Tunnel

    Review by Gabriella Contratto One of the first lessons a creative writer learns is the shape of a good plot, the flat line of exposition, the rising action that culminates in the pointy climax where the plot turns, and the downhill line of the falling action ending in a neat resolution. In Fiction Writing 101,…

  • Finding ʻOhana and Home: A Review of kristiana Kahakauwila’s Clairboyance

    Finding ʻOhana and Home: A Review of kristiana Kahakauwila’s Clairboyance

    by Andrew Hoe A friend from Big Island recently told me how Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles were foundational to him as a child, and I, also being a fan of Riordan, brought up the Rick Riordan Presents books. My friend lamented that, while there were so many cultures represented in that wonderful series, there were…

  • We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon

    We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon

    Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의…