New York Times Bestselling Author and National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
In partnership with Butler’s Global and Historical Studies

Cathy Park Hong is an award-winning poet and nonfiction writer whose widely celebrated book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The work is part-memoir and part-cultural criticism conveying a radically honest meditation on the Asian American experience. Time named Cathy Park Hong one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 and her book Minor Feelings as one of the Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2020.

Hong is also the author of three poetry collections, including Dance Dance Revolution (which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize), Engine Empire, and Translating Mo’Um. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Boston Review, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of the New Republic.

Hong grew up in Los Angeles before earning her BA from Oberlin College and MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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