The Asian American Literary Review

Advisory Editorial Board

  • PETER BACHO is a writer and teacher whose novel Cebu won the American Book Award and whose short story collection Dark Blue Suit won the Washington Governor's Writers Award.
  • LAN CAO, professor of law at the College of William and Mary, is the author of the widely acclaimed novel Monkey Bridge.
  • TINA CHANG is the author of the poetry collection Half-Lit Houses, finalist for the Asian American Literary Award. Her poems have been anthologized in Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American Literature, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems and in Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, and the Van Lier Foundation.
  • ALEXANDER CHEE is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers' Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the VCCA. His first novel, Edinburgh, is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor's Choice Prize, and was a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Booksense 76 selection.
  • RU FREEMAN's fiction, literary nonfiction, and political journalism have been published internationally. Her novel A Disobedient Girl appeared in summer 2009.
  • Suji Kwock Kim's first book of poems, Notes from the Divided Country (2003) was chosen for the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; she has been awarded grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Washington State Artist Trust, the Korea Foundation, and the Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies.
  • TIMOTHY LIU is the author of the poetry collections For Dust Thou Art; Of Thee I Sing, selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Hard Evidence; Say Goodnight; Burnt Offerings; and Vox Angelica, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.
  • KYOKO MORI is a Japanese American poet, novelist, and essayist whose works include the young adult novels Shizuko's Daughter and One Bird, the memoir The Dream of Water, the poetry collection Fallout, the essay collection Polite Lies, and the novel Stone Field, True Arrow.
  • DAVID MURA is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, critic, playwright and performance artist. His memoir Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year. His second book of poetry, The Colors of Desire, won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His first, After We Lost Our Way, won the 1989 National Poetry Series Contest. His most recent work is the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire.
  • RUTH OZEKI is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist. Her first novel, My Year of Meats, won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes and Noble American Book Award, and a Special Jury Prize of the World Cookbook Awards in Versailles. Her second novel, All Over Creation, was a New York Times Notable Book and the recipient of a 2004 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the Willa Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction.
  • ANDREW X. PHAM is the author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Across the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. He has received numerous awards, including the Kiriyama Prize, the Whiting Writer Award, the Quality Paperback Book Prize, the Oregon Literature Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Finalist, the Guardian Prize Shortlist Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Discovery Book, and a Border's Original Voices Selection.
  • SRIKANTH REDDY, poet, literary critic, and professor at the University of Chicago, published the well-regarded Facts for Visitors: Poems in 2004.
  • VIJAY SESHADRI's collections of poems include James Laughlin Award winner The Long Meadow and Wild Kingdom. Seshadri has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement.
  • ARTHUR SZE is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, and Archipelago. He has received the Western States Book Award for Translation, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, and three grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.
  • KAREN TEI YAMASHITA is a Japanese American writer whose pioneering works of fiction include Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, winner of the American Book Award and The Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, Brazil Maru, named by The Village Voice one of the 25 Best Books of 1992, Tropic of Orange, finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize, and Circle K Cycles.
  • JEFFREY YANG's debut poetry collection An Aquarium won the PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry.
  • C. DALE YOUNG is the author of The Day Underneath the Day, The Second Person, and TORN. He is a recipient of the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • HELEN ZIA, Asian American journalist and scholar, is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, and co-author, with Wen Ho Lee, of My Country Versus Me.