The Wave is an apt name for a timely publication, reshaping an existing collective consciousness about Asianness at our crucial moment of Asian representation in the arts. Arts and literature seek to express both the particularities and generalities about the human experience, and the unique convergence of cultures particular to the anglophone Asian experience is in fact also broadly representative of globalized modernity.

— May Wang

For me, The Wave is a testament to the dynamism and breadth of Asian/American artistic and cultural production... This… is what excites me the most about The Wave: that our community interprets Asian/American a multitude of ways, each full of excitement and creativity.

— Ria Modak

Voice.

— Elynna Chang

I think that if artists do not create art that matters to their communities, the art itself loses its effectiveness, no matter how skillfully it was crafted. Though race is not the only community to which we belong, I think it is one of them, whether we are aware of it or not.

— Eric Zhou

We, Asians and Asian Americans, are artists. We need no other reason.

— Michael Baick