Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD

Poetry

 

 

 

​​Mai-Linh Hong's debut poetry collection, Continental Drift, won the 2025 Trio Award and is forthcoming from 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 are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Waxwing, The Minnesota Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Maine Review, and The Santa Clara Review.

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Field Notes From Aliens Who Float, Hayden's Ferry Review, contest runner-up

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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, 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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Follow @continentaldrift_poems on Instagram for updates.

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