Join us for a celebration of Kulhar Books, new South Asian Diasporic literature imprint from Kaya Press featuring poet Ansley Moon, author of Register the Missing -- A heartbreaking exploration of the often-impossible choices faced by mothers and daughters in a world where over 50 million Indian girls have been lost to female infanticide, feticide and gender-based violence. Moon's poetry collection is one of the few American books to explore the perspective of an adoptee from the Indian subcontinent. Ansley will be reading with Tanushree Baidya and Dan Lau. We're so excited to hold this reading and celebration for Kulhar Books in San Francisco -- please do come out to celebrate this milestone for Kaya Press, and connect over poetry, refreshments, and community. 

Ansley Moon (they/them) is the author of the poetry collections Register the Missing (Kaya Press) and How to Bury the Dead  (Black Coffee Press). They are an Asian American adoptee, poet, and educator. A graduate of the MFA program at The New School and a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant, Moon’s work has appeared in Agni, Hyphen Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. Moon writes the Teach this Poem series for the Academy of American Poets, and is a Co-Founding member of The Starlings Collective, a BIPOC adoptee writers and artists collective.

 Tanushree Baidya is a transnational writer from India. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering, and an MBA from Northeastern University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in WBUR, Creative Nonfiction, Kweli, Pangyrus, Hypertext Review, Grubstreet, New Pages, and Florida Review, among others. Her poem ‘At a Reading’ was a 2026 finalist for the Plentitudes Poetry Prize, and her story ‘Java Jaya’ was shortlisted for the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction Award. She lives in South San Francisco and is at work on her first novel. 

DAN LAU (they/them) is a Chinese American poet raised on Munsee Lenape land also known as Queens, New York. Their poems have been published in Generations, Cape Cod Review, Gesture, RHINO, CRATE, Colorado Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and others. They are the former Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter, a queer journal and press. A Kundiman fellow, Dan is the recipient of scholarships, grants, and residencies from The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, Willapa Bay AiR, and Caldera. They received his MFA in Poetry from Boise State University and their MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Currently, Dan resides on Ramaytush Ohlone land and has recently joined the Center for the Art of Translation team as its Director of Advancement where they will create lasting positive change for literary translators and the center’s diverse San Francisco communities.