Reading: Anna Maria Hong

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Literature candidate Anna Maria Hong’s poems have been published in many journals and anthologies, including 250 Poems: A Portable Anthology (2012) and The Best American Poetry 2013. Hong served as a Bunting Fellow in Poetry at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2010-2011. Hong is the editor of Growing Up Asian American (1995), an anthology of fiction and memoir. Her current work includes a collection of sonnets titled The Glass Age, and an ongoing collaboration with the Chicago-based composer Christopher Wendell Jones on a song series called The New Madrigals. A contributing editor at the Offing, she teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and at Ursinus College.