She is a full professor at Rutgers University–Newark.
Her prose and poetry have been published in The New York Times, New Republic, the Guardian, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.
Hong is the recipient of the Windham Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Norton Dance Dance Revolution (2006), chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um (2002). She is also the author of poetry collections Engine Empire, published in 2012 by W. Minor Feelings was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and earned her recognition on TIME ’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 list. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Please join the Los Angeles Review of Books for an intimate evening with acclaimed author, poet, and professor CATHY PARK HONG.Ĭathy Park Hong’s New York Times bestselling book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, was published in Spring 2020 by One World/Random House and Profile Books (UK). (May)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Hong's earlier treatment of Korean-American themes in Translating Mo'um attracted some attention, but nothing could have predicted this admittedly flawed but highly original work: hard to excerpt, hard at times to decode, it's even harder to forget. The Historian's own reflective autobiography, presented in a terse, melodic prose, brings in other examples of global horrors (Sierra Leonean amputees) as it mirrors a reader's own unease. "Ceded from Koryo, "ceded from/ Merikka." The "Dance Dance Revolution" the Guide has seen-described, vaguely, late (perhaps too late) in the book, and named for, but supposedly unrelated to, the popular video game-thus becomes "Kwangju Replayed," another failed attempt to destroy an undemocratic capitalist system. The Guide's speeches-all in verse-turn repeatedly to her own life story, detailed in a superbly invented dialect, based on English but incorporating Spanish and Jamaican patois: "I'mma double migrant," the Guide says. The Guide has survived the historical Kwangju uprising, a 1980 massacre of students and other prodemocracy protesters by the American-backed South Korean dictatorship. This deeply political Barnard Women Poets Prize–winning second book is part poetic sequence, part science fiction: in a future city called the Desert-a Vegas-like manmade tourist trap-a character called the Guide shows another, the Historian, the sights.
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