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Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951) is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet. His work draws on Japanese American history and his own experiences.[1]

Garrett Hongo
Born1951 (age 7071)
Volcano, Hawai'i
Occupationpoet
Alma materPomona College
Notable worksThe River of Heaven
Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i""
Notable awardsPulitzer finalist;
Oregon Book Award;
Guggenheim Fellow,
NEA Fellowship,
Rockefeller Fellowship
PartnerShelly Withrow
ChildrenAnnalena

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The River of Heaven (1988).


Early life


Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai'i. He attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine.

Hongo has been awarded fellowships from the Watson Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.


Career


Hongo is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon. From 1989 through 1993, he was the director of the university's Program in Creative Writing.

Hongo has published three books of poetry: Yellow Light (1982) and The River of Heaven (1988), which was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[1] Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (1995), was awarded the 2006 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Hongo has also worked as an editor on Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi (1994) and on The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993).


Selected works


In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Garett Hongo, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 30+ works in 70+ publications in 2 languages and 4,600+ library holdings .[2]

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Notes


  1. Arakawa, Suzanne K. (2005). "Hongo, Garrett (Kaoru)," in Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, pp. 533-534., p. 533, at Google Books
  2. WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine: Hongo, Garrett Kaoru 1951-
  3. Hongo, Garrett Kaoru (2015). The mirror diary selected essays. Project Muse,, Project Muse., Project MUSE, Project MUSE. Ann Arbor [Michigan]: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472123292. OCLC 1002575041.

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