Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD
Poetry
Continental Drift: Poems – book forthcoming in 2026​
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Mai-Linh Hong's debut poetry collection, Continental Drift, won the 2025 Trio Award and will be published by Trio House Press in July 2026.
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"Continental Drift delves into the ruptures of displacement—of culture, of land, of the body. [Hong] oscillates between gentle and devastating in a way that mimics the quiet, unstoppable violence of nature. Like loss, like shifting tectonic plates, this book reshapes you—slowly, irrevocably, and down to the bone."
—Sierra DeMulder, Trio Award Judge​
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Poems
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​Poems are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Santa Clara Review.
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Winter Visitors (erasure of Thoreau's Walden), The Maine Review 11.2
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What we lost may come ashore, Everybody Cousin, and Harvest Moon with Wildfire, Waxwing 34
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Field Notes From Aliens Who Float (2025 Poetry Contest Runner-Up), Hayden's Ferry Review
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to my smallest ancestor, EXODUS AFTER THOUGHTS x Kaya Press
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Airport and Third Country Resettlement, ANMLY 40
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Plum Jam (Best of the Net Nominee), Crab Orchard Review 26.2
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​Field Trip, Wildness 37
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The Road Where My Grandfather Died, They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets edited by Christine Kitano & Alicia Pyrmohamed
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