Press

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

• Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
• ReaderViews 
• Entropy Magazine

for Stamped: an anti-travel novel

• The Atticus Review
• Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
• Entropy Magazine
• Bookish Asia
• Anomaly Magazine

“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.