Anna Maria Hong

Anna Maria Hong (she/her) is the author of Age of Glass (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition; the novella H & G (Sidebrow Books, 2018), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize; and Fablesque (Tupelo Press, 2020), winner of the Berkshire Prize. She is the editor of Growing Up Asian American (William Morrow/Avon Books, 1993), an anthology of fiction and memoir.

Hong’s poetry, essays, and fiction are published in journals and anthologies, including The Nation, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Guernica, Ecotone, FENCE, The Common, Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry (Two Sylvias Press, 2014), The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays (University of Iowa Press, 2022), The Best American Poetry, and others.

In 2023, Hong guest-edited Traversals: A Folio on Walking with Christine Hume for The Hopkins Review. She has collaborated with visual artists and composers on multimedia works and songs, including the adaptation of her novella, H & G, with composer Allen Shawn, director Jean Randich, and filmmaker Sue Rees into a lyric opera titled H & G, a great and terrible story, which premiered at Bennington College’s Lester Martin Theater in 2022.

Her awards and honors include a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, Poetry magazine’s Frederick Bock Prize, and residencies at Yaddo, Djerassi, Fundación Valparaiso, and Kunstnarhuset Messen. She earned a BA in philosophy at Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. An associate professor at Mount Holyoke College, Hong has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Bennington College, Ursinus College, and the University of Washington Bothell.