Garrett Hongo
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Garrett Hongo

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Poet, memoirist, and audio journalist Garrett Hongo was born in Hawaiʻi and grew up there and in Los Angeles. His latest book is Ocean of Clouds: Poems (2025). Other poetry collections are Yellow Light (1982), The River of Heaven (1988), which received the Lamont Poetry Prize and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Coral Road (2011). His most recent non-fiction is The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (2022). He has also published The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (2017) and Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi (1995). Poems and essays of his appear in the New Yorker, Georgia Review, Terrain, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His work has been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2022, he was given the Aiken Taylor Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He lives in Eugene where he is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.
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