Southeastern Asia

Sri Chinmoy was a spiritual poet, musician, artist, and self-described “student of peace.” He arose from the great tradition of Bengali poets, and wrote prolifically in both English and Bengali. A central ...

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled, bakla poet and playwright. Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling...

Rafiq Kathwari, a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, earned an MA in political science from the New School and an MFA from Columbia University. His most recent collection of poems, My Mother's...

Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was a Hindu monk, philosopher, thinker, and poet who introduced Hinduism to the United States. He was a follower of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda...

Sarah Audsley, a Korean American adoptee, is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023), a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective...

Luis Francia was born in the Philippines and earned his BA from Ateneo de Manila University. He immigrated to the US after college, moving to New York City. In the 1970s, he began working for the Village Voice...

Teresa Mei Chuc was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Shortly after the Vietnam War, Chuc, her mother, and her brother were granted political asylum and settled in Pasadena, California. Her father remained in a Vietnamese...

Luis Cabalquinto was born in Magarao, the Philippines, and moved to the United States in 1968, where he studied at Cornell University, New York University, and the New School. He is the author of numerous ...

Poet, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Eric Gamalinda was born and raised in Manila, the Philippines. He worked as an investigative journalist before immigrating to the United States in 1993. He is the ...

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta has authored several books, including the poetry collections Burning Houses (2013) and The Proxy Eros (2008). She is the coeditor of Fast Food Fiction Delivery (2014). She earned a...

Born 1959 in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam, Nguyen Do graduated from Construction College of Hanoi as a surveyor and Vinh University as a teacher. He has been long made living as an editor and a journalist in ...

Divya Victor is the author of CURB (Nightboat Books, 2021), winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award and the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition, CURB was a finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award...

Poet Hoa Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam and raised in the Washington, D.C., area. She is the author of several books, including A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021...

Poet, novelist, and community organizer Bino A. Realuyo was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He has earned degrees from American University, Universidad Argentina de La Empresa, and Harvard University...

Zeyar Lynn is a poet, critic, writer, translator, language instructor, who lives in Yangon (Rangoon). He is a highly influential leader of postmodern and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry in Burma. He is the author of...

Poet Nick Carbó grew up in Manila in the Philippines, the adopted son of wealthy Spanish parents. He began writing poetry as a college student in the United States, and his collections of poetry include El...

Poet, essayist, and performance artist Justin Chin was born in Malaysia and educated in Singapore and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. With humor and raw vulnerability, Chin’s poems interrogate the personal...

Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1963, came to the U.S. in 1975, and has also lived in Italy and England. He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood...

Ho Xuan Huong (1772–1822) was called “the Queen of Nôm Poetry” by the late Xuan Dieu, a prominant modern Vietnamese poet.

Born in Malacca, Malaysia, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim was raised by her Chinese father and attended missionary schools. Although her first languages were Malay and the Hokkin dialect of Chinese, she was able to ...