Anna Maria Hong’s first poetry collection, Age of Glass, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s 2017 First Book Poetry Competition and was published in March 2018. Her novella, H & G, won the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s inaugural Clarissa Dalloway Prize and was published by Sidebrow Books in April 2018. Her second poetry collection, Fablesque, won Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in 2019. A former Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, she has published poetry and fiction in over 50 journals and anthologies including The Nation, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Conduit, Fence, Harvard Review, Southwest Review, Verse Daily, Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry, 250 Poems, and The Best American Poetry. She is the editor of Growing Up Asian American, an anthology of fiction and memoir. Her awards include Poetry magazine’s Frederick Bock Prize and residencies from Yaddo, Djerassi, Fundación Valparaiso, and Kunstnarhuset Messen. She earned a BA in philosophy at Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas’ Michener Center for Writers and has also taught at the University of Washington Bothell, Ursinus College, and the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
