Author
Cathy Park Hong
Associated Country
United States
Cathy Park Hong is a Korean American poet, essayist, and professor known for her work on race, language, and Asian American identity. She was born in Los Angeles in 1976 and grew up in the United States in a Korean immigrant family. Her writing often explores how cultural identity is shaped by migration, assimilation, and historical trauma.
Hong is the author of several poetry collections, including Translating Mo’um and Dance Dance Revolution, which experiment with language, voice, and structure to reflect fractured identities and multilingual experience. Her most widely recognized work is the essay collection Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020), which blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to examine anti-Asian racism, personal memory, and systemic inequality in the United States.
She has taught at various institutions, including Rutgers University–Newark, where she is a professor of English. Hong has received multiple awards and fellowships for her poetry and essays, and she is widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary voices in Asian American literature and critical writing.
Hong is the author of several poetry collections, including Translating Mo’um and Dance Dance Revolution, which experiment with language, voice, and structure to reflect fractured identities and multilingual experience. Her most widely recognized work is the essay collection Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020), which blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to examine anti-Asian racism, personal memory, and systemic inequality in the United States.
She has taught at various institutions, including Rutgers University–Newark, where she is a professor of English. Hong has received multiple awards and fellowships for her poetry and essays, and she is widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary voices in Asian American literature and critical writing.
Books
Minor Feelings 2020
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part...
Engine Empire 2012
Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the...
Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour...