Kundiman: Rise & Split
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Event Description
Join Kundiman Fellows link the past and present while examining the personal and familial through poems, story— truthtellings.
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Curator: Mg Roberts
Born in Subic Bay, Philippines, Mg Roberts is a multimedia artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Kelsey Street Press member, VONA/Voices Alum, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. She is author of Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books, 2017) and not so, sea (Durga Press, 2014) and her work has appeared in the Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Dusie, Bombay Gin, Web Conjunctions, Elderly and elsewhere. She co-edited the anthology Nests and Strangers: On Asian Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press) along with Timothy Yu and is currently co-editing Responses, New Writing, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters, four hens, one puppy, and geologist husband.
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Event Readers
Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is the author of the poetry collection Split, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. Her work has been published in POETRY, Gulf Coast, and Denver Quarterly Review. She lives in Seattle, and is the Executive Director at Kundiman.
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Chris Santiago
Chris Santiago is the author of Tula, winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by A. Van Jordan. His poems, fiction, and criticism have appeared in FIELD, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, and the Asian American Literary Review. He holds degrees in creative writing and music from Oberlin College and received his PhD in English from the University of Southern California. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Santiago is also a percussionist and amateur jazz pianist. He teaches literature, sound culture, and creative writing at the University of St. Thomas. He lives in Minnesota.
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Grace Jahng Lee
Born stateless in Seoul and raised on four continents, Grace Jahng Lee is a recipient of fellowships/awards from VONA, Yaddo, Brooklyn Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, and Hedgebrook. Fragmented identities, memory, intergenerational trauma, and home are central themes in her writing. She is working on an autobiographical novel and essay collection.
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Emily Yamauchi
Emily Yamauchi is a writer and artist in Oakland, California by way of New Jersey, which some say is appropriate–who knows. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. She writes fiction, comics, and graphic novels. Currently she is writing a novel and a graphic memoir. When she’s not writing or experimenting with projects fusing words/image/music, she’s teaching the young’uns around the Bay Area and working as a legal writer for immigration law. As a Hedgebrook and VONA/Voices alum and Oakland resident of 15 years, she is always looking to elevate and celebrate community and marginalized voices.
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Bel Poblador
Bel Poblador is a Los Angeles born writer and editor who lives, loves, and creates in San Francisco. She received her BA in American Literature with a minor in Spanish from UCLA in 2007 and her MFA in Writing from the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts in 2013. She is currently managing editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. Her writing and interviews have appeared in {m}aganda magazine, Next Words 2013, the Black Clock blog, tropmag.com, the TAYO blog, and Best of Trop, Volume I. She is a 2016 Kundiman Fiction Fellow.
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