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Won the Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize for her second poetry collection, Fablesque.


Anna Maria Hong joined the Creative Writing Advisory Board at Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal in August 2024.


Anna Maria Hong presented on the “But Thou Thyself Unbind”: The Uncontainable Sonnet seminar with Dora Malech, Lauren K. Watel, Laura T. Smith, and Walt Hunter at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2024.


Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Reader, “Reading and Interview with Ellen Miller-Mack, Riley Bowen, and Jon Plodzik.” Poet Talk, WMUA, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, August 29, 2024.


Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Shenandoah literary magazine, selecting poems by Majda Gama as the winner and by Desiree Santana as the runner-up.


Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Academy of American Poets Jean Burden Poetry Prize at the University of Redlands.


Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Speaker, “On Traversals: A Folio on Walking.” Visiting Writers Series, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, February 22, 2024. https://www.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/college-of-arts-and-sciences/undergraduate-studies/creative-writing/visiting-writers-series/


Anna Maria Hong emceed a reading by contributors to Traversals: A Folio on Walking at the Poetic Research Bureau and 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, CA on February 21, 2024. https://www.poeticresearch.com/events/traversals-a-folio-on-walking


Hong, A. M. (2023) Invited Speaker, “How to Live. What to Do: An Episodic Primer.” 2023 Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens, Hartford, CT, November 4, 2023.


Anna Maria Hong presented on the “Avenues of Creative Scholarship” roundtable with Suzanne Churchill, Lesley Wheeler, Walt Hunter, and Tavi González at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Brooklyn, NY on October 26, 2023. https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2023/schedules/MSA_Streets_Program_WEB.pdf