Mai-Linh Hong is a writer and scholar of Asian American and refugee literatures. Now based in the Central Valley of California, she was until recently a lifelong East Coaster and misses winter. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Minnesota Review, Crab Orchard Review, and They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. Her essays and criticism can be found in Amerasia, MELUS, Verge, and other journals. Her writing has received support from Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, ACLS, and AAUW. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Virginia and teaches at the University of California, Merced.
