Postcolonial Colloquium

Date
Apr 4, 2025, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
Location TBA

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Event Description

Claire Hong is a poet and agricultural worker whose daily life and writing practice involve researching and searching for cross-cultural, interspecies, and intergenerational relationships that have formed and form outside of, or despite, imperialism. Dedicated to traditional foodways, land stewardship, and multigenerational community work, Hong works to provide arid-adapted seeds and resources to gardeners and food security projects of the Southwest.

Hong is the author of Upend  (Noemi Press 2020), which was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. She is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023). Hong received a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University (2019-2021) and has creative writing degrees from the University of Arizona (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA). She was born in San Francisco, CA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ.

Sponsor
Department of English
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