See feature in UBC ARTS, “Gaming the System”
Recognition:
for Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
- Finalist for the 2021 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association
- Runner up for the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award
for All Flowers Bloom
- Winner of the 2021 Reviewers Choice Gold Award for Best General Fiction/Novel
for Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
- Winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies
for Stamped: an anti-travel novel
- Winner of the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Book Award in Prose
- Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Literary category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest
Other Recognitions
- Arts Faculty Early Career Teaching Award, Hong Kong Baptist University, May 2018.
- Finalist for the 2016 Yasuo Sakakibara Prize, American Studies Association, 2016.
- Featured on Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fiction Stories of 2013
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize for “The Fog” in The Quotable.
Interviews:
Author Interview by Nathalie De Los Santos. Chopsticks Alley. April 2021.
“In Conversation with Kawika Guillermo.” Ricepaper Magazine. January 2020.
“Post-book: Kawika Guillermo.” The Halo Halo Review. November 2019.
“Interview with Kawika Guillermo.” Asian Books Blog. May 2019.
“Stamped: an anti-travel novel.” New Books in Asian American Studies. August 2018.
“Interview with Kawika Guillermo.” Anak Sastra. January 31, 2014.
“Smoking with Kawika Guillermo.” Interview by Brandon Wicks. Apr 2012
Readings:
Reading of “What Fell Beneath the Tracks” by Brad Powers
Reviews:
for All Flowers Bloom
for Stamped: an anti-travel novel
“The Last of Its Kind” reviewed in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond: “The last magician hunts the last dragon in the days of a decaying imperium. Sad, poignant tale.”
“No Name Islands” review: “I think this story was the most visceral for me, despite how short it is. Here, too, we are in a speculative world of what might be with regard to ecology, this time with terraforming. The final image in this story will haunt me for a long time.”
“No Name Islands” review on The Star.