Faculty Accomplishments

Won the Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize for her second poetry collection, Fablesque.

Hong, A. M. (2025) H & G, a great and terrible story, a lyric opera adapted from Anna Maria Hong’s novella, H & G, was performed at the Eastman School of Music’s Winter Voice Festival on January 30–February 2, 2025, directed by Timothy Long and Pat Diamond. Hong co-wrote the libretto with composer Allen Shawn and theater director Jean Randich. https://www.esm.rochester.edu/theatre/events/eastman-opera-theatre-presents-h-g-a-great-and-terrible-story/

Hong, A.M. Invited Speaker, “AAPI Sonnets.” University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 16, 2025.

Hong, A.M. Invited Reader, Octagon Reading Series, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 15, 2025. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/american-poet-hoping-expand-creative-horizons-university-students%E2%80%99-writing 

Anna Maria Hong joined the Creative Writing Advisory Board at Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal in August 2024. https://sites.smith.edu/meridians/

Anna Maria Hong presented on the “But Thou Thyself Unbind”: The Uncontainable Sonnet seminar with Dora Malech, Lauren K. Watel, Laura T. Smith, and Walt Hunter at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2024.

Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Reader, “Reading and Interview with Ellen Miller-Mack, Riley Bowen, and Jon Plodzik.” Poet Talk, WMUA, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, August 29, 2024. https://poemtalk.transistor.fm/episodes/anna-maria-hong

Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Shenandoah literary magazine, selecting poems by Majda Gama as the winner and by Desiree Santana as the runner-up. https://shenandoahliterary.org/732/in-great-aunt-noors-salon/

Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Academy of American Poets Jean Burden Poetry Prize at the University of Redlands.

Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Speaker, “On Traversals: A Folio on Walking.” Visiting Writers Series, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, February 22, 2024. https://www.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/college-of-arts-and-sciences/undergraduate-studies/creative-writing/visiting-writers-series/