Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong (born August 7, 1976) is a Korean-American writer. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative.
Life
Hong, a child of Korean parents, was raised in Los Angeles, California.
She is a graduate of Oberlin College and has an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Work
Hong's books of poems include Translating Mo'um, published by Hanging Loose Press in 2002, Dance Dance Revolution, published by W. W. Norton in 2007, and Engine Empire, published by W. W. Norton in May 2012.
Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in A Public Space, Paris Review, Poetry, Web Conjunctions, jubilat, Chain, among other journals. She has also written articles for publications like The Village Voice, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor and New York Times Magazine. In 2002, she won a Pushcart Prize for Translating Mo'um and in 2007 she won the Barnard Women Poets Prize.
