Hong, Cathy Park
Entry updated 27 April 2026. Tagged: Author, Poet.
(1976- ) US academic, poet and author, active from around 2000. She is of most direct sf interest for her second volume of Poetry, Dance Dance Revolution (coll of linked poems 2007), constructed as a set of interviews conducted in the Near Future by a "Historian" (something of a Mysterious Stranger) who evokes from her "Guide" a stream of exemplary encounters in a somewhat abstractly conceived City. Much is learned about the changing of the world, of the life stories of the conversationalists, the dance and qualia of coping. Engine Empire: Poems (coll of linked poems 2012) uncovers the histories, and the seeming consubstantiality, of three cities: the first set in a transfigured Western world; the second in a contemporary Chinese city roiled by change; the third in a very distant Near Future where everything – including all the elements that make up human Identity – is absorbed in an AI net.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020), which is nonfiction, recounts the author's life experiences dealing with racial discrimination as it has affected her and other chosen individuals in modern America. [JC]
Cathy Park Hong
born Los Angeles, California: 7 August 1976
works
- Translating Mo'um (New York: Hanging Loose Press, 2002) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]
- Dance Dance Revolution (New York: W W Norton, 2007) [coll of linked poems: hb/]
- Engine Empire: Poems (New York: W W Norton, 2012) [coll of linked poems: hb/]
nonfiction
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (New York: Random House, 2020) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]
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