:: Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um (2002), won a Pushcart Prize. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Jubilat, and other journals, and she has reported for the Village Voice, the New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Salon. Hong grew up in Los Angeles and received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.