Dr. Mai-Linh K. Hong | Asian American Literature Professor

Dr. Mai-Linh K. Hong is a poet and essayist and a scholar of refugee storytelling. Born in Vietnam and raised in Virginia, she teaches literature at the University of California, Merced.

Dr. Hong's poetry is forthcoming or published in Copper Nickel, Wildness, Minnesota Review, ANMLY, Crab Orchard Review, and They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2022). She was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Test Site Poetry Series and the 2024 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Essays and criticism appear in Amerasia, Verge, MELUS, The Account, and other journals and edited volumes. She is coauthor and coeditor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021).

In 2025, Dr. Hong is a VONA Fellow, the Susanna Colloredo Fellow in Environmental Writing at the Vermont Studio Center, and a participant in the Elk River Writers Workshop. She has received fellowships and scholarships from ACLS, AAUW, Tin House, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and more.

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