Cathy Park Hong

Cathy Park Hong is a popular Korean-American writer, professor, and poet. She has successfully published 3 volumes of poetry. A number of her works are available in serialized narrative and mixed languages. Author Hong was born to Korean parents in Los Angeles, California and was brought up there. She completed her graduation from Oberlin College and then obtained an MFA degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Hong is a winner of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, NY Foundation of Arts Fellowship, 2018 Windham Campbell Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In addition to her writing interests, she is employed at Rutgers University for teaching creative writing.