Celebrate the impact of AAPI writers and their work, discover book recommendations for AAPI Heritage Month, listen to podcasts with AAPI writers and more!
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we have a number of resources available to help you discover, celebrate, and honor the vast contributions of Asian American and Pacific Islander writers, both past and present.
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Watch icons Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss writing, legacy, and the recent collection of Kingston’s work from the Library of America, edited by Nguyen. Recorded live for the American Writers Festival.
Discover the personal story of Hisaye Yamamoto, a powerful, but perhaps underappreciated, writer who defined a generation of Japanese Americans as she also sought to expose injustices and give voice to the voiceless. Yamamoto and her family were imprisoned by the United States government in a concentration camp during World War II. Learn how writing helped Yamamoto get through that time and how that experience impacted her writing and activism later on.
In our special exhibit My America, available both online and in-person, contemporary immigrant and refugee writers explore themes of home, community, language, duality, and what it means to be “American.” Acclaimed writers like poet Jenny Xie, novelist R. O. Kwon, author Yiyun Li and many more share insights into their craft and the experience of creating a home in a foreign land.
Watch Joanne Lee Molinaro discuss her new cookbook The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen at the American Writers Museum.
Writer and editor Rowan Hisayo Buchanan—author of the novels Harmless Like You, Starling Days, and the forthcoming The Sleep Watcher—spoke to nine Asian American novelists about their books, as well as the Asian and Asian American writers who have inspired them.
Over on our YouTube channel we’ve put together a Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month playlist for your viewing pleasure.
Check out and subscribe to our podcasts to hear fascinating conversations with contemporary Asian American writers.
Hit the American Writers Museum blog for even more Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month content.
