Note: This is a reprint from an interview in 2017. Since this publication, Kaya has published several more electrifying books, including City of the Future by Sesshu Foster. We’re re-running this piece because Kaya Press is celebrating their 25th anniversary. To everyone at Kaya, congratulations on a quarter century of publishing incredible art from the AAPI diaspora!
by Lauren Eggert-Crowe
Chances are you know about Kaya Press. Perhaps you recognize the name Nicholas Wong, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Kaya Press poetry title Crevasse. Or maybe you’ve heard of Ed Lin’s books This is a Bust and Waylaid. You might have listened to that 99% Invisible podcast episode about Thomassons but didn’t know that Kaya Press reprinted Genpei Akasegawa’s book on the subject. And in 2015 you might have seen all the positive press for Sam Chanse’s hybrid tour-de-force Lydia’s Funeral Video. Over the past two decades, Kaya Press has built a catalog of fresh, innovative work and has established itself as an organization at the forefront of independent publishing.
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