Garrett Hongo is a Japanese American poet. He has 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. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993.

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  • Garrett Hongo is a Japanese American poet. He has 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. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993. Hongo has published two 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. His latest book, 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). Hongo has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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  • Pulitzer finalist; Oregon Book Award; Guggenheim, NEA and Rockefeller Fellowships
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  • Garrett Hongo is a Japanese American poet. He has 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. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993.
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