LEAD DONORS & GRANTORS

Our programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the Mellon Foundation; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Fordham University; the New York Community Trust; the Academy of American Poets; the Mosaic Network and Fund in The New York Community Trust; the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund; the Jerome Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; the Poetry Foundation; Hawthornden Foundation; Capital Group; NYC Council, Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund, and the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families; the Poetry Coalition; the Rona Jaffe Foundation; WQXR; the Amazon Literary Partnership; a LitNYS regrant from the New York State Council on the Arts; and numerous individual donors.

2023 Donors

Patron

  • J. Mae Barizo

  • Oliver de la Paz

  • Cathy Linh Che

  • Wylie Chen

  • Chia-Chee Chiu

  • Renaissance Charitable Foundation

  • The Wong Woodcock Family Fund

  • Rebecca Gambito

  • Sarah Gambito

  • Capital Group

  • Ajay Khanna

  • Rachel Khong

  • Katherine and Ben Lee-Cohen

  • Mia Malhotra

  • Paul Manlapig

  • Robert Nobile

  • Anonymous

  • Sigrid Nunez

  • Brooklyn Org

  • HarperCollins Publishers*

  • Eileen Rhie

  • Anonymous

  • Vijay Seshadri

  • Leslie Shipman

  • Angela So

  • Lester Szeto

  • Jennifer Van Dalsen

  • Ocean Vuong

Angel

  • Gina Apostol

  • Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

  • Anonymous

  • Jennifer Chang

  • Fidelity Charitable

  • Rafael Flores

  • The Blackbaud Giving Fund

  • Joseph Legaspi

  • Anonymous

  • Edward Lin

  • Jennifer Lue

  • Ricardo Maldonado

  • Vikas Menon

  • Elda Rotor

  • Amy Sewell

  • Leah Silvieus

  • Anonymous

  • Katrina Venturina

Lover

  • Anonymous

  • Fatimah Asghar

  • Christie Beduya

  • Tamiko Beyer

  • Caroline Bleeke

  • Norah Brzyski

  • Peechee Castillo

  • Bonnie Chau

  • Chen Chen

  • Lisa Chen

  • Ava Chin

  • Kavita Das

  • Anonymous

  • Katie Freeman

  • Melody Gee

  • Carmen Gimenez Smith

  • Rigoberto Gonzalez

  • Eva Gu

  • Kimiko Hahn

  • Jimin Han

  • Anonymous

  • Miyako Hannan-Scarponi

  • Nicholas Hiebert

  • Jean Ho

  • Micheal Hooker

  • Ge Jin

  • Todd Kaneko

  • Vandana Khanna

  • Swati Khurana

  • Jee Leong Koh

  • Susanna Kwan

  • Jane Lin

  • Yvonne Liu

  • Tariq Luthun

  • Patti Lynn

  • Donna Mark

  • Amy Meng

  • Andrea Millares

  • Ligaya Mishan

  • Rajiv Mohabir

  • Claire Mondry

  • Ansley Moon

  • Mai Nardone

  • Anna Nguyen

  • Melisa Olgun

  • Matthew Olzmann

  • Monica Ong Reed

  • Troy Osaki

  • Ayesha Pande

  • Diana Park

  • Amisha Patel

  • Karen Pittelman

  • Paul Rapoli

  • Jason Reblando

  • David Rohlfing

  • Pronoy Sarkar

  • Purvi Shah

  • Ricco Siasoco

  • Mikkel Snyder

  • Julianne Sohn

  • Anonymous

  • Amit Srivastav

  • Annie Tan

  • Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk

  • Annabelle Tometich

  • Elizabeth Tran

  • Nereida Trujillo

  • Ryan Lee Wong

  • Jenny Xie

  • Seema Yasmin

  • Ying Yen

Giver

  • George Abraham

  • Neil Aitken

  • Kristine Alarcon

  • Marie Avetria

  • Anonymous

  • Jennifer Baker

  • Pichchenda Bao

  • Jason Bayani

  • Mary Bly

  • Vanessa Chan

  • Victoria Chang

  • Farley Chase

  • Lyn Li Che

  • Traci Chee

  • Andrew Chen

  • Evan Chen

  • Doris W. Cheng

  • Jennifer Cheng

  • James Cheng

  • Marilyn Chin

  • Noah Arhm Choi

  • Frances Choi

  • Nina Chung

  • Catherine Con Morse

  • Anne Cong-Huyen

  • Lenika Cruz

  • Emily Dalton

  • Katie Devine

  • Melanie Elvena

  • Heather Eng

  • Edsel Engalla

  • Tarfia Faizullah

  • Elliot Figman

  • Lindsay Garbutt

  • Anonymous

  • Robert Gill

  • Sylvia Gimenez

  • Lu Han

  • William Hayes

  • Yin-Tian He

  • Brenda Hillman

  • Mai-Linh Hong

  • Lucas Hunt

  • Susan Ito

  • Ashaki Jackson

  • Janine Joseph

  • Mark L. Keats

  • Saifa Khan

  • Parag Khandhar

  • Susan R. Landers

  • Iris Law

  • Bethe Lee

  • Julia Lee

  • Muriel Leung

  • Lillian Li

  • Erica Lin

  • Dana Liu

  • Aline Lo

  • Andrea Louie

  • Donna Miele

  • Anonymous

  • David Mura

  • Sahar Muradi

  • Sabina Murray

  • Trinh Nguyen

  • Anonymous

  • Hieu Nguyen

  • Bruce Nichols

  • Tiana Nobile

  • Nordstrom 

  • Janine Oshiro

  • Lexi Pandell

  • Soo Mi Park

  • Victoria Perez-Norton

  • Michelle Naka Pierce

  • Shan Rao

  • Levi Rubeck

  • Brynn Saito

  • Matthew Salesses

  • Jasmine Sawers

  • Yogesh Sharma

  • Nicole Sealey

  • Solmaz Sharif

  • Prageeta Sharma

  • Candy Shue

  • Ira Silverberg

  • David Simpson

  • Molly Sutton Kiefer

  • Shruti Swamy

  • Arthur Sze

  • Anonymous

  • Daniel Tam-Claiborne

  • Lucy Tan

  • Pimone Triplett

  • Taylor Weber

  • Lisa Willis

  • Jai Wong

  • Xi Wong

  • Jennifer Wu

  • Renee Ya

  • Hanlu Ye

  • Katie Yee

  • Mariko Yoshimura-Rank

  • Krystal Young

  • Anonymous

  • Jessica Yuan

Friend

  • Anonymous

  • Barrak Alzaid

  • Ally Ang

  • P. Aquino

  • Hossannah Asuncion

  • Anonymous

  • Florie Bandong

  • Luisa Bandong

  • Anonymous

  • Isabella Basile

  • Kiran Bath

  • Elif Batuman

  • Oliver Bendorf

  • Kate Brassel

  • Joshua Cabale

  • Shirley Cai

  • Anonymous

  • Maureen Cathcart

  • Rosalie Chan

  • Anonymous

  • Elysha Chang

  • Kai Cheang

  • Karissa Chen

  • Charity Cheney

  • Victoria Cho

  • Rebecca Cini

  • Patricia Dayleg

  • Anonymous

  • Duy Doan

  • Helli Fang

  • Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien

  • George Fei

  • Sonia Feldman

  • Anonymous

  • Seth Fischer

  • Caelan Fortes

  • Givinga Foundation 

  • Give Lively Foundation 

  • Karen Gu

  • Minal Hajratwala

  • Rob Haney

  • Kathryn Hargett-Hsu

  • Lee Herrick

  • Sophie Herron

  • Paul Hlava

  • Hallie Hobson

  • Caroline Hong

  • Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 

  • Natasha Ishak

  • Vikesh Kapoor

  • Caroline Kim

  • James Kim

  • Alexandra Kleeman

  • Chad Koch

  • E. J. Koh

  • Kay Kojima

  • Talia Kolluri

  • Gowri Koneswaran

  • Abigail De Kosnik

  • Jennifer Kronovet

  • Amy Lam

  • Loan Le

  • Anna Lee

  • Grace Lee

  • Grace Jahng Lee

  • Anonymous

  • Anonymous

  • Vivian Lee

  • Jeffrey Leong

  • Susan Li

  • Caroline Lim

  • Anonymous

  • Alyssa Lo

  • Christie Louie

  • Yi-Mei Lu

  • Laurin Macios

  • Evan Mallon

  • Sally Wen Mao

  • Victory Matsui

  • Na Mee

  • Alison Meyers

  • Susan Moon

  • Timothy Moore

  • Joshua Nguyen

  • Maia Nuñez

  • Preeti Parikh

  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Dustin Parsons 

  • Michelle Peñaloza

  • Anonymous

  • Sabrina Pyun

  • Rachel Quist

  • Elizabeth Roberts

  • Anthony Robles

  • Lily Rugo

  • Viplav Saini

  • Nay Saysourinho

  • Marguerite Sheehan

  • David Shih

  • Brandon Shimoda

  • Leah Shlachter

  • Anonymous

  • Charlie Syms

  • Anonymous

  • Emma Trotter

  • Kelly Tsai

  • Edie Tsong

  • Aldric Ulep

  • Maria Cristina Van Orden

  • R. A. Villanueva

  • Kate Vogel

  • Anonymous

  • Jane Wong

  • Shelley Wong

  • Anonymous

  • Jenny Xie

  • George Yamazawa Jr.

  • Timothy Yu

  • Anonymous

  • Jessica Yu