Emerging Voices Alumni Publish Widely

Emerging Voices Alumni, totaling 115 writers to date, continue to make their mark in the literary world. Below is a sampling of where their work has appeared, honors they have received, and events/venues where they have read or had their work performed.


PUBLICATIONS

Books
(28)

  • The Orphan Sister (Gallery 2011) by Gwendolen Gross
  • Bitter Melon (Edgemont Press 2011) by Cara Chow
  • Ocotillo Dreams (Arizona State University Bilingual Press 2011) by Melinda Palacio
  • Swagger is a Woman (Mouthfeel Press 2010) by Cassandra Love
  • Folsom Lockdown (Kulupi Press 2010) by Melinda Palacio
  • Chimneys In Detwa (Tsehai Press 2010) by Jawanza Duminsani
  • Dancing with Butterflies (Washington Square Press 2009) by Reyna Grande
  • The Art of Exile (Bilingual Press 2009) William Archila
  • The Night Counter (Shaye Areheart Books/Random House 2009) by Alia Yunis
  • Talking to the Moon (Carroll & Graf, 2007) by Noel Alumit
  • The Other Mother (Shaye Areheart/Crown,2007) by Gwendolen Gross
  • Filipinos in Los Angeles (Arcadia 2007) by Mae Respicio
  • The Insufficiency of Maps (Atria, 2006) by Nora Pierce
  • Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria, 2006) by Reyna Grande
  • Tomorrow They Will Kiss (Little, Brown & Co, 2006) by Eduardo Santiago
  • Seeing Emily (Harry N. Adams, 2005) by Joyce Lee Wong
  • The Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-actualization (Booklocker, 2005) by Mary Terzian
  • Library of Author Biographies: Karen Hesse (Rosen Central 2005) by Nzingha Clark
  • Maps of City & Body: Shedding Light on the Performance of Denise Uyehara (Kaya Press, 2004) by Denise Uyehara
  • My Sweet Unconditional (Tia Chucha Press, 2004) by Ariel Robello
  • Stoetry (FarStarFire Press, 2003) by Jawanza Dumisani
  • Selah’s Bed (Free Press, 2003)by Jenoyne Adams
  • Letters to Montgomery Clift (MacAdam Cage, 2002; paperback, Alyson Pubns, 2003) by Noel Alumit
  • Getting Out: A Novel (Henry Holt, 2002) by Gwendolen Gross
  • Field Guide (Henry Holt, 2001; paperback, Harvest, 2002) by Gwendolen Gross
  • Resurrecting Mingus (Free Press, 2001) by Jenoyne Adams
  • X-Men, Superman, Batman, Kaboom (Marvel Comics 2000 – 2005) by Jeff Matsuda
  • L.A. (Lovers Anonymous) (LALA Press, 1995) by Stephanie Han

Anthologies (45)

  • Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana and Xicano Performance Poetry (Kórima Press 2011)
  • Best Lesbian Romance (Cleis Press 2011)
  • Experienced: Rock Music Tales of Fact and Fiction (Vagabondage Press 2011)
  • Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press 2010)
  • Strange Cargo: An Emerging Voices Anthology 1997 – 2010 (PEN Center USA 2010)
  • New Poets of American West (Many Voices Press 2010)
  • A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press 2009)
  • Maple Leaf Rag IV (Portals Press)
  • Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl ( 2009)
  • Latinos in Lotus Land (Bilingual Press, 2008)
  • Wild Things – Domestic and Otherwise (Outrider Press 2008)
  • New to North America: Writing by U.S. Immigrants, Their Children and Grandchildren (Burning Bush Publications, 2007)
  • What Color is Your Jockstrap (Traveler’s Tales, Inc. 2006)
  • We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists (Seal Press, 2006)
  • It’s A Girl  (Seal Press, 2006)
  • Voices from Leimert Park: a poetry anthology (Tsehai Publishers, 2006)
  • Maple Leaf Rag III (Portals Press 2006)
  • Waking Up American (Seal Press, 2005)
  • Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories Anthology (2005)
  • It’s A Boy (Seal Press, 2004)
  • Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books, 2004)
  • Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV (HCI Teens, 2004)
  • Changing Course (Adam’s Media, 2004)
  • Under Her Skin (Seal Press, 2004)
  • Father Poems (Anvil Publishing 2004)
  • So Luminous the Wildflowers; An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2003)
  • Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction (Penguin USA, 2003)
  • Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern, 2003)
  • Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press, 2002)
  • Caprice, Mischief: Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press, 2002)
  • Geography of Rage: The Los Angeles Riots of 1992 (Really Great Books, 2002)
  • Yell-oh Girls: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity & Growing Up Asian American (Harper Collins, 2001)
  • Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights Publishers, 2001)
  • Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers (Aunt Lute Books, 2000)
  • Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2000)
  • Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature (Wiley, 2000)
  • Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbians (Faber & Faber, 1999)
  • Those Who Can... Teach: Celebrating Teachers Who Make a Difference (Wildcat Canyon Press, 1999)
  • Public Speaking: Challenges and Choices (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999)
  • Catch The Fire!!! A Cross-Generational Anthology of African American Literature (Riverhead, 1998)
  • Flippin': Filipinos on America (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1996)
  • Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (Doubleday, 1995)
  • Poetry Is Not A Luxury: LA Women of Color (Publisher Pending)
  • Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing (New Rivers Press)

Journals/Newspapers (127)

AARP Catalyst Latina Voices Reunions
African Voices Cavalier Literary Couture  LA Weekly R.KV.RY
Amerasi Journal  Christian Science Moniter  Lodestar Quarterly Roll Call
Americas Review  Circa Dot  Los Angeles Times The Hiss Quarterly
Angeleno  Chicago Sun Times  Louisville Review Rosebud
Arcadia Magazine  Descant  Mary Mother Church Salt Hill Journal
Asian Pacific  disOrient  Mascara Literary Review Sage Trail
American Journal  Drumvoices Review  Naugatuck River Review San Pedro River Review
Askew Poetry Journal  East Valley and Scottsdale Review  Nimrod Journal Santa Barbara News-Press
The Arizona Republic  Edible Ojai  North American Review Santa Fe Writers Project
Barcelona Review  El Aviso Magazine  Obsidian III Santa Monica Review
Berkeley Fiction Review  El Tecolote  ONTHEBUS  Saveur Magazine
BeWhich  Flyaway Journal  O & S Poets and Artists  SBC Magazine
Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age  Forth Magazine  Outsider Ink  Scr(i)pt
 Bitch Gander Press  PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano/Latino Literary Art  Sic (Vice & Verse)
 Blackbird  Georgia Review  Pale House II  Slash
 Blackclock  Get Out Magazine  Philippines Free Press  Slash Pine Press
 Black Renaissance Noire  Goleta Valley Voice  Phoenix Magazine  Solidarity Journal
 Black Warrior Review

 Hedgebrook Journal

 Pilgrimage Magazine  Southwest Education and Training Magazine
 Blue Stem Online  Homeboy Review  Playgirl Magazine  Spectrum
 BorderSenses Literary Magazine  Huffington Post  poeticdiversity  Split Peas Literary Magazine
 Boston Review  INK Byte  Pride Magazine  SportsTravel
 Brown Sugar II  Inkwell  Quarterly Literary Journal  Squaw Valley Review
 Buffalo Carp  Inner City Stories  Quercus Review  Steel Toe Review
 Caffeine Magazine  inscape  Quick Fiction  Sundress Publications
 California Courier  Interlope  Rattle  Swink
 Calyx  Jezebel  The Rattling Wall  Tertulia
   Kyoto Journal  Red Cedar Review  The Drumming Between Us
   Kweli Journal  Red Weather  Tu Ciudad
   La Bloga  Red Wheelbarrow  Urban Latino Magazine
      USA Today
      Venice Magazine
      Ventura County Star
      Venus Magazine
      Word and Image
      World Literature Today
      Writers Post Journal
      Zyzzyva

 


HONORS / AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS (71)
  • 2011 Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts • Natashia Déon
  • 2010 Co-Award for the Sandra Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award • Adelina Anthony
  • 2010 Target Emerging Authors, Hot Reads Pick • The Night Counter by Alia Yunis
  • 2010 Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship • Marytza Rubio
  • 2010 Bread Loaf Scholarship • Natashia Déon
  • 2010 Lamba Literary Foundation Fellowship • Monica Carter
  • 2010 Voices of Our Nations Arts Residency • Anna Alves
  • 2010 UCLA Community Access Scholarship • John Boucher
  • 2009 Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts • Shanna Mahin
  • 2009 MacDowell Colony Fellowship • Shanna Mahin
  • 2009 Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony Scholarship • Shanna Mahin
  • 2009 Kulupi Press’ Sense of Place Chapbook Contest • Melinda Palacio
  • 2009 Squaw Valley Scholarship • Melinda Palacio
  • 2008 Squaw Valley Fellow • Taylur Ngo
  • 2007 Fellowship, Idyllwild Summer Poetry Workshop • Alisha Westerman
  • 2007 American Book Award • Reyna Grande
  • 2007 International Reading Association / Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award • Joyce Lee Wong, Seeing Emily
  • 2006 Hedgebrook Residency • Alia Yunis
  • 2006 Best Books Award The Immigrants’ Daughter • Mary Terzian
  • 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award  • Reyna Grande
  • 2005 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers • Sandra Ramirez-Thomas
  • 2005 Artist in Residence Grant, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs • Denise Uyehara
  • 2005 C.O.L.A. Fellowship • Denise Uyehara
  • 2004 National Performance Network Conference • Denise Uyehara
  • 2004 John C. Lupton New Voices In Literature Award Finalist • Kayla Allen
  • 2004 Stegner Fellow, Fiction × Nora Pierce
  • 2004 Vermont Studio Center Residency · Nora Pierce
  • 2003-2004 Residency Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center · Viet Le
  • 2003 Los Angeles Times Scholarship • Alisha Westerman
  • 2003 John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts Scholarship • Alisha Westerman
  • 2003 Blueberry Press Honorable Mention • Mary Terzian
  • 2002 Nimrod/Katherine Anne Porter Prize, Fiction • Stephanie Han
  • 2002 South China Morning Post Short Fiction Award • Stephanie Han
  • 2002 Los Angeles Times Scholarship • Alisha Westerman
  • 2002 Winner ISO Violet Quill Award • Noel Alumit, Letters to Montgomery Clift
  • 2002 Stonewall Book Award, American Library Association • Noel Alumit, Letters to Montgomery Clift
  • 2002 Fiction Finalist, Lambda Literary Prize for Gay Men • Noel Alumit, Letters to Montgomery Clift
  • 2002 Fiction Finalist, Southern California Bookseller Assoc. Awards • Noel Alumit, Letters to Montgomery Clift
  • 2002 Durfee Foundation Artist Award • Marjorie Sa’adah
  • 2002Kawahara Fellowship, Asian Studies Department, UCLA • Denise Uyehara
  • 2001 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Okinawa • Denise Uyehara
  • Residency fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts • Lan Tran
  • Finalist, San Francisco Foundation Short Fiction Awards • Kristina Wong
  • Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Poetry Festival Contest • William Archila
  • First Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Contest • William Archila
  • Hubbub’s 1998 Adrienne Lee Award • Gwendolen Gross
  • Residency fellowship, Vermont Studio Center • Lan Tran
  • Second Place, Ireland Fiction Magazine Contest • Kim Benjamin
  • La Napoule Artist Residency • Kayla Allen
  • Sundance Institute Writing Fellowships • Marjorie Sa’adah, John Song, Shonda Buchanan, Jeff Matsuda
  • Residency fellowship, Ragdale Foundation • Lan Tran
  • Cave Canem Foundation Fellowship • Renee Simms
  • Voices of our Nations Arts Fellowship • Renee Simms
  • Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts • Jeff Matsuda
  • Dorland Arts Colony Grant • Pat Alderete
  • Brody Arts Grant from California Community Foundation for Poetry • Wendy James
  • Poets & Writers On Site Residency at Beyond Baroque and LA County Museum • Denise Uyehara
  • Finalist, Heideman award • Lan Tran
  • Recipient, York Prize • Lan Tran
  • Residency fellowship, Hedgebrook • Lan Tran
  • Most Promising New Poet Award, Lee Bennett Hopkins/IRA • Joyce Lee Wong
  • UCLA Extension Writer’s Program Community Access scholarship • Joyce Lee Wong
  • New Talent Prize, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators • Joyce Lee Wong
  • International Reading Association Notable Book • Joyce Lee Wong, Seeing Emily
  • New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age • Joyce Lee Wong, Seeing Emily
  • Hedgebrook Residency • Kisha Xiomara Palmer
  • Ucross Residency • Kisha Xiomara Palmer
  • Creative Capital • Kristina Wong
  • National Performance Network • Kristina Wong
  •  Mapfund • Kristina Wong
  • Center for Cultural Innovation • Kristina Wong
  • Durfee Foundation • Kristina Wong

READINGS / VENUES (34)

REDCAT at Disney Hall • Mark Taper Forum • Occidental College • Fowler Museum • Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery • West Hollywood Book Fair • Vagina Monologues • Los Angeles Times Festival of Books • Getty Reading Series • Ford Amphitheatre • Japanese American National Museum • “Inspiration House” KPFK, FM-90.7 FM • SOL Fest • Ladyfest Los Angeles • The Wet Daddy Literary Festival • Gate Cultural Center • Highways Performance Space • The World Stage • Celebration Theatre • David Henry Hwang Theatre • Beyond Baroque • Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture • Festival of Northeast Los Angeles • Voz Alta · Hotel Café · Hammer Museum • West End Theatre • Lyric Theatre • Stories Bookstore • NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival • Jumpstart Theater Company • MOCA Los Angeles • The Mandrake • Skylight Books • Book Soup