Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD

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Mai-Linh K. Hong is the winner of the 2025 Trio Award. Her poetry collection, Continental Drift, will be published by Trio House Press in 2026.​​​​ 

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Dr. Hong's creative writing and research explore the imaginative ways refugees interact with landscape, place, community, and each other. Her scholarly work on Asian American and refugee literatures can be found in Amerasia Journal, Verge, MELUS, and other leading journals and edited volumes. A lifelong crafter, she is coauthor and coeditor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021).

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In 2025, Dr. Hong is a Voices of Our Nation Fellow, Tin House Scholar, and the Susanna Colloredo Fellow in Environmental Writing at the Vermont Studio Center. She is also a participant in the Elk River Writers Workshop. Her research has been supported by prestigious fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Association of University Women, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and more.​​ 

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Born in Vietnam and raised in Virginia, Dr. Hong teaches literature at the University of California, Merced. ​From 2017 to 2020, she co-chaired the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies.

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Instagram: @continentaldrift_poems

Bluesky: @mai-linhhong.bsky.social​​​

 

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Photo credit: Falu Bakrania