Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD

Dr. Mai-Linh K. Hong is a poet and essayist and a scholar of refugee storytelling. Born in Vietnam and raised in Virginia, she teaches literature at the University of California, Merced. Her poetry is forthcoming or published in Wildness, Minnesota Review, Crab Orchard Review, and They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. Essays and criticism appear in Amerasia, Verge, MELUS, The Account, and other journals and edited volumes. She is coauthor and coeditor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021). Dr. Hong has received grants and fellowships from ACLS, AAUW, Tin House, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and more. In 2025, she is a Susanna Colloredo Fellow in Environmental Writing at the Vermont Studio Center.