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    Here are the 2021 Kundiman Mentorship Lab fellows.


    May 3, 2021, 1:31pm

    Kundiman has just announced this year’s cohort of fellows for the Kundiman Mentorship Lab, an annual program supporting nine NYC-based emerging Asian American artists per year. Mentorship Fellows will receive a $1000 stipend, craft classes and genre workshops, individual mentorships, and a culminating public reading in 2022. This year’s fellows will learn alongside poetry mentor Arhm Choi Wild; fiction mentor Rajesh Parameswaran; and creative nonfiction mentor Larissa Pham. Without further ado, here is the list of fellows:

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    Creative Nonfiction
    Sabrina Toppa
    Emperatriz Ung
    JP Viernes

    Fiction
    Sheena Raza Faisal
    Siqi Liu
    Katie Yee

    Poetry
    Lyn Li Che
    Chaelee Dalton
    Theo LeGro

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    More information on the Lab, as well as the list of finalists, can be found on the Kundiman website. Congratulations to all recognized!

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