Aunt Lute Asks is a series that features voices in our Aunt Lute family. Today we are talking to Shay Brawn, the Artistic Director of Aunt Lute Books. When did you join Aunt Lute? I joined Aunt Lute in 1995. I was still working on my PhD then and was trying to decide whether or not I wanted to stay in academia. Aunt Lute was very attractive to me as a different kind of path because it had published books that had been very important to me in my academic career and I just thou

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we'd like to highlight some books from this community, along with some organizations that are actively working toward community safety. The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing by Lara Stapleton Junglee Girl By Ginu Kamani Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers Edited by Nick Carbó and Eileen Tabios Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Women of the South Asian Diaspora By The Women