
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
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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 |
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Kyoto Journal |
Red Cedar Review |
The Drumming Between Us |
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Kweli Journal |
Red Weather |
Tu Ciudad |
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La Bloga |
Red Wheelbarrow |
Urban Latino Magazine |
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USA Today |
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Venice Magazine |
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Ventura County Star |
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Venus Magazine |
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Word and Image |
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World Literature Today |
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Writers Post Journal |
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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
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