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Her newest book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown, was recently awarded two Golden Poppy Awards, in the Regional Book and Non-Fiction categories. The Golden Poppy Awards honor books published each year by Northern California authors and artists chosen by independent booksellers throughout Northern California.
His new novel, Born Slippy, was published by Repeater Books/Penguin Random House in January, 2020.
Her two short stories were recently awarded gold medals at the NATJA Travel Media Awards in the Family Travel and Profile categories.
She was recently awarded the Whiting Award in Poetry for her debut collection, Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019). The judges said her poems “layer lyricism, religious language, and the tactile materials of daily life to build altars of affection for the people and things of her world,” each “meticulously shaped by a formal and aesthetic vision that already feels authoritative.”
Her fourth book, The Memory Eaters, winner of the first Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in March 2020. She is currently undertaking her second Fulbright fellowship to India.
His new book of poetry, Scatterplot, will be published by Omnidawn in April, 2020.
His new collection of poetry, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, was published by Four Way Books in March, 2020.
She edited the upcoming book, Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them, which is due out April, 2020, from Abrams Image.
His poems “…a petrel” & “Leaf on Water” appear in Fence, Issue #36, Winter 2020.
Her new storybook, Spider Grandmother’s Web of Wonder, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It will be published April 30, 2020.
Her new book, The More Extravagant Feast, will be published by Graywolf Press in April, 2020.
She was recently awarded the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This award goes to a poet of progressive, original, and experimental tendencies.
Her new collection of poetry, Somatic, is now available for preorder. It will be published by Terrapin Books this spring.
She has joined the editorial staff of the new online poetry journal The Night Heron Barks, and her poem, “Tulip Cuttings,” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Mid-American Review.
Her novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blues, recently won the Award for Literature in Adult Fiction from the Asian/ Pacific American Library Association.
Her new children’s book, An Ordinary Day, was published in March, 2020, by Beach Lane Books.
His second book of poetry, The Distant Sound, will be published in April 2020 by Sixteen Rivers Press.
Her debut memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2020.
Her new book, The Deep, was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in March, 2020.
His new novel, The Road to Delano, was recently published by Rare Bird Books in March, 2020.
Her newest book of poetry, DMZ Colony, forthcoming from Wave Books in April, 2020, recently received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
