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Anna Maria Hong was named a 2023鈥24 Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) Seminar Fellow by 麻豆传媒高清 and the Five College Consortium.


鈥淒ispellations: Reverb鈥 was nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.


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


Anna Maria Hong joined the Creative Writing Advisory Board at Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal in August 2024.


Anna Maria Hong presented on the 鈥淏ut Thou Thyself Unbind鈥: 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, 鈥淩eading and Interview with Ellen Miller-Mack, Riley Bowen, and Jon Plodzik.鈥 Poet Talk, WMUA, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, August 29, 2024.


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.


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, 鈥淥n Traversals: A Folio on Walking.鈥 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/


Anna Maria Hong emceed a reading by contributors to Traversals: A Folio on Walking at the Poetic Research Bureau and 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, CA on February 21, 2024. https://www.poeticresearch.com/events/traversals-a-folio-on-walking