Ken Chen

2006

» Best American Essays
for "City Out of Breath" by Ken Chen
(Edited by Lauren Slater; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
for "The Brothers" by Lysley Tenorio
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Ken Chen works as an attorney in New York. A recent graduate of Yale Law School, he has directed a production of Death and the Maiden and helped start Satellite Magazine and Arts & Letters Daily. His poetry and essays have appeared in the Boston Review of Books, Pleiades, Radical Society, and the Kyoto Journal.

Lysley Tenorio has published stories in the Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, the Chicago Tribune, and Best New American Voices 2001. A former Wallace Stegner fellow, he is an assistant professor in the MFA program at St. Mary's College of California.

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2005

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "The Perpetrator, the Victim, and the Witness" by Alex Hinton
(Edited by Susan Orleans; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
for "The Brothers" by Lysley Tenorio
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Alex Hinton is the author of three scholarly books on genocide: Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide, Genocide: An Anthropological Reader, and Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. His essays on genocide have appeared in such journals as Anthropology Today, American Anthropologist, Journal of Asian Studies, and Ethos.

Lysley Tenorio. See 2006.

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2004

» Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award of Excellence for Literature

Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards are given annually by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association to recognize the best books written, designed, and published in the islands. Century of the Tiger editors Jenny Ryun Foster, Frank Stewart, and Heinz Insu Fenkl received the award of excellence in the literature category.

» Hawai‘i Award for Literature

Given by the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council, this award recognizes residents of the islands for outstanding achievement in the field of literature. Frank Stewart was given the 2002 award in May 2004.

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Jenny Ryun Foster was adopted from Korea in 1974. She has studied Korean literature, shamanism, and folklore in the United States and Korea. A fiction writer, she works as a librarian in Honolulu.

Heinz Insu Fenkl was born in Inch'on, Korea, in 1960 and came to America when he was twelve. A writer, translator, and former Fulbright scholar, he directs the creative writing program at the State University of New York in New Paltz. His autobiographical novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, is about the coming-of-age of an Amerasian in Korea.

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2002

» Best American Short Stories
for "Aftermath" by Mary Yukari Waters
(Edited by Sue Miller; series editor is Katrina Kenison)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
for "The Church of Omnivorous Light" by Robert Wrigley
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Mary Yukari Waters has published fiction in such magazines as Triquarterly, Glimmer Train, and Shenandoah. She lives in Long Beach, California.

Robert Wrigley's publications include Reign of Snakes (Viking Penguin, 1999), which won the Kingsley Tufts Award.

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2001

» Best American Essays
for "Facing the Village" by Lenore Look
(Edited by Kathleen Norris; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Your Birthday" by Palden Gyal
(Edited by Kathleen Norris; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
for "The Thief of Tay Ninh" by Kevin Bowen
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Kwek" by Sharon May Brown
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Lenore Look is the author of Arthur's First-Moon Birthday and Love As Strong as Ginger, which was selected as a Booklist Editor's Choice in 1999. Her essays have appeared in the Princeton Alumni Weekly and in Race and Races: Cases for a Diverse America. A native of Seattle, she now lives in northern New Jersey.

Palden Gyal is the founder of the noted Tibetan literary journal Jangzhon and the independent newspaper Tibet Times. His collection of poetry in Tibetan, The Offering and Other Poems (mchod), was published by the Amnye Machen Institute. He now lives in Washington, D.C., where he works as a writer and broadcaster for Radio Free Asia.

Kevin Bowen served as a soldier in Viet Nam from 1968 to 1969. He is the cotranslator of Distant Road by Nguyen Duy, A Time Far Past by Luu Le, and Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993, and the author of two books of poetry: Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison and Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong. He is director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachussetts Boston.

Sharon May Brown researched the Khmer Rouge for the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights. Her stories and photographs have appeared in numerous American journals and in the books Seeking Shelter: Cambodians in Thailand and The Saving Rain. She is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.

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2000

» Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards (mention)
for "Kwek" by Sharon May Brown
(Series editor is Larry Dark)

» Best American Short Stories (mention)
for "Rafida's Stories" by Jerry Whitus
(Edited by E. L. Doctorow; series editor is Katrina Kenison)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Choosing Burden" by Phil Choi
(Edited by Alan Lightman; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» Best American Science and Nature Writing (mention)
for "Specimen Days" by Leonard Nathan
(Series editor is Bilger Burkhart)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Marine Air" by Theresa Kishkan
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Lau the Tailor" by Charles Philipp Martin
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Sharon May Brown. See 2001.

Jerry Whitus has written education, entertainment, and business films and videos, and taught English in universities in Japan and Singapore. He settled in Dallas, where he now writes college telecourses for public television and is working on a collection of short stories set in Southeast Asia.

Phil Choi lives in Boston. His essay in Manoa: Land beneath the Wind is a chapter from a book in progress entitled Our Daily Bread: A Memoir of Eating, Praying, and Growing Up. A companion chapter, "Grandmother's Milk," appeared in Many Mountains Moving in 1998.

Leonard Nathan wrote The Potato Eaters (Orchises Press, 1999), which was awarded a silver medal for poetry by the Commonwealth Club of California, and Diary of a Left-Handed Birdwatcher (Harcourt Brace, 1998). He has published in the Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Manoa, among others.

Theresa Kishkan lives with her family on the Sechelt Peninsula, north of Vancouver. Her books include Sisters of Grass, a novel, and Red Laredo Boots, a collection of essays. She and her husband, John Pass, run High Ground, a private press specializing in letterpress books and broadsides.

Charles Philipp Martin grew up in Greenwich Village, New York, but has spent the last third of his life in Hong Kong. He is the author of the crime novel The Man Who Didn't Finish The. He writes a Sunday column for the South China Morning Post.

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1999

» Best American Short Stories
for "The Good Shopkeeper" by Samrat Upadhyay
(Edited by Amy Tan; series editor is Katrina Kenison)

» Best American Short Stories (mention)
for "The Invitation" by Maximilian Schlaks
(Edited by Amy Tan; series editor is Katrina Kenison)

» Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards (mention)
for "Lau the Tailor" by Charles Philipp Martin
(Judged by Sherman Alexie, Stephen King, Lorrie Moore; series editor is Larry Dark)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Of Swallows and Doing Time" by Ken Lamberton
(Edited by Edward Hoagland; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Prayer for My Father" by M. G. Stephens
(Edited by Edward Hoagland; series editor is Robert Atwan)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Lionbird" by Dorie Bargmann
(Edited by Edward Hoagland; series editor is Robert Atwan)

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Samrat Upadhyay is the author of the short-story collection Arresting God in Kathmandu (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 1999, edited by Amy Tan, and Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, edited by Sherman Alexie. His Story "The Cooking Poet" was featured in Selected Shorts and read in Los Angeles by Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy.

Maximilian Schlaks moved to America from Guadeloupe, French West Indies, in 1989, when he was eighteen. He has also been published in Missouri Review.

Charles Philipp Martin. See 2000.

Ken Lamberton has had work in Oasis, Northern Lights, and South Dakota Review. His essay in Manoa: Inland Shores, from Wilderness and Razor Wire (Mercury House, 1999), is about encounters with nature in an unnatural place: prison.

M. G. Stephens has published two novels, Season at Coole and The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, and a memoir about living in Korea, Lost in Seoul. His book of essays, Green Dreams: Essays Under the Influence of the Irish, won the Associated Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction.

Dorie Bargmann worked in Central America for five years. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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1998

» Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards
for "Crimson" by Josip Novakovich
(Series editor is Larry Dark)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Dancing Among the Ghosts" by James D. Houston
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» Best American Short Stories (mention)
for "Crimson" by Josip Novakovich
(Series editor is Katrina Kenison)

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Josip Novakovich is the author of Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters. Both works are collections of stories published by Graywolf Press.

James D. Houston lives in Santa Cruz, California. His novels include The Last Paradise, winner of a 1999 American Book Award, and Snow Mountain Passage, named one of the year's best books by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. The excerpt in Manoa: Jungle Planet is from Hawaiian Son: The Life and Music of Eddie Kamae (Hawaiian Legacy, 2004).

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1997

» Best Journal Design 1997
Honorable Mention
Council of Editors of Learned Journals

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "The Blue Cloak" by David Borofka
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» Best American Mystery Stories
for "Unlawful Contact" by Monica Wood
(Edited by Robert B. Parker; series editor is Otto Penzler)

» Prize Stories 1997: The O. Henry Awards (mention)
for "Rifka, A Cracked Record" by Roy Glassberg
(Series editor is Larry Dark)

» Prize Stories 1997: The O. Henry Awards (mention)
for "The Burning Heart" by Hal Moore
(Series editor is Larry Dark)

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David Borofka has received such awards as the Missouri Review's editors' prize and Carolina Quarterly's Charles B. Wood award for distinguished writing; his collection, Hints of His Mortality, won the 1996 Iowa short-fiction award. His novel, The Island, was published in 1997 by MacMurray & Beck.

Monica Wood is a fiction writer and teacher. She has written three novels: Any Bitter Thing, My Only Story, and Secret Language, a collection of short stories titled Ernie's Ark, and several guide books for writers and teachers.

Roy Glassberg shares a house in the hills of Oakland, California, with the potter Myra Kaplan and her cat, Rachel. He has published in the Madison Review, the Berkeley Fiction Review, and Kansas Quarterly.

Hal Moore has published stories in Esquire, Quartely West, Western Humanities Review, and other magazines. He writes from the high desert near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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1996

» Best American Poetry
for "Kolohe, or Communication" by Carolyn Lei-Lanilau
(Edited by Adrienne Rich; series editor is Katrina Kenison)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Fossilized" by Sharon Solwitz
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» Best American Short Stories (mention)
for "The Blue Cloak" by David Borofka
(Edited by John Edgar Wideman; series editor is Katrina Kenison)

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Carolyn Lei-Lanilau is the author of Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking), winner of the 1989 American Book Award for Poetry, and her work has been included in the Before Columbus Foundation anthology. She is a member of Ka Lahui, a Hawaiian sovereignty group, and the founder of Hale O Hawai‘i Nei, an organization dedicated to promoting the culture and traditions of Hawai‘i.

Sharon Solwitz has had her fiction published in Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Mademoiselle, and many other magazines. She has received the Nelson Algren short fiction and Katherine Anne Porter awards.

David Borofka. See 1997.

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1995

» Best American Poetry
for "Refuge" by Robert Hill Long
(Edited by Richard Howard; series editor is David Lehman)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "The Rain Makes the Roof Sing" by Tom Montgomery-Fate
(Edited by Robert Atwan)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "The Documentarian" by Jaime Manrique
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Robert Hill Long received a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. His book The Effigies was a finalist for the 1998 Oregon Book Award.

Tom Montgomery-Fate is the author of Beyond the White Noise, a collection of essays about living and teaching in the Ilocos region of the Philippines. His other books include Bridging Worlds in Appalachia and Nicaragua: Rice, Beans and Hope.

Jaime Manrique was born in Colombia and received the Colombian National Poetry Award for his first book of poems. His works include a novel, Latin Moon in Manhattan (St. Martin's Press, 1992), and an epic poem, Christopher Columbus on his Deathbed (Vehicle Editions, 1992).

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1994

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Grease Monkey" by Jennifer Brice
(Edited by Robert Atwan)

» Best American Essays (mention)
for "Camel Like Only Camel" by Naomi Shihab Nye
(Edited by Robert Atwan)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "The Sad Art of Making Paper" by Ramon C. Sunico
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Jennifer Brice published The Last Settlers in 1998 (Dusquesne University). She is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits fellowship in the humanities.

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of Sitti's Secrets (Four Winds Press/Macmillan), illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. She has written numerous books of poems, including Red Suitcase and You & Yours.

Ramon C. Sunico published, designed, typeset, printed, and bound his collection of poetryThe Secret of Graphite: Poems in Two Tongues. "The Sad Art of Making Paper" first appeared in that collection, then later in the Sunday Inquirer, a Philippines weekly magazine. He designs and publishes children's books, and has won many awards for his poetry and children's stories.

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1993

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Batteiger's Muse" by Gordon Weaver
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Gordon Weaver has published a number of books, including Conan Doyle and the Paron's Son and Men Who Would Be Good, a collection of short stories. His first novel, published in 1968, has been adpated as a feature film, Cadence, directed by Martin Sheen, who costars with his son Charlie. Married, the father of three daughters, he lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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1992

» Editorial Distinction
All-USA College Academic First Team
USA Today, Washington, D.C.
for student/managing editor Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Butcher Scraps" by Faye Kicknosway
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "The One with Flowers" by Eve Shelnutt
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "The Beautiful Baby" by Monica Wood
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

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Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit was born and raised in Hawai‘i, but has traveled widely. In the early 1980s, she lived on a kibbutz in the north of Israel. There she awakened to a historical and political consciousness that eventually led her back home where she became active in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Her essay in Manoa: Homeland is from a memoir in progress.

Faye Kicknosway is the author of eleven books of poetry including, most recently, Mixed Plate (Wesleyan University, 2003) and Still Windows Run Deep (Ridgeway Press, 2003).

Eve Shelnutt's stories have appeared in Nimrod, Chariton Review, The Pushcart Prize, XIII: Best of the Small Presses and New Stories From the South. She lives in Athens, Ohio.

Monica Wood. See 1997.

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1991

» Best New Journal of the Year 1991
Honorable Mention
Council of Editors of Learned Journals

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
for "On the Life and Death of Stan Laurel's Son" by Walter Pavlich
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (mention)
for "Parfum" by Jonathan Penner
(Series editor is Bill Henderson)

» Best of the West: New Short Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri 1991
W. W. Norton, New York, NY

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Walter Pavlich is the author of Running Near the End of the World (University of Iowa Press). More of his work can be found in the Atlantic, Yale Review, Iowa Review, Manoa, American Poetry Review, and Poetry.

Jonathan Penner's books include Going Blind, a novel, and Private Parties, a story collection, which won the Drue Heinz Prize. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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1990

» Editor's Choice III: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press 1984-1990
The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Iowa City, IA
for bodysurfers, a photograph by Wayne Levin

» Excellence in Publishing / Excellence in Design and Production
Honorable Mention
Association of American Publishers, New York, NY

» Excellence in Publishing
Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
Association of American University Presses, New York, NY

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Wayne Levin has had shows in Paris, Tokyo, and New York, and his photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, and Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. In 1984 he was awarded a photographer's fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, the first Hawai‘i photographer ever so recognized.

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