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Garrett Hongo was born on 30 May, 1951 in Volcano, Hawai'i, is an American poet. Discover Garrett Hongo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation poet
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 30 May 1951
Birthday 30 May
Birthplace Volcano, Hawai'i
Nationality United States

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1951

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951) is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet.

His work draws on Japanese American history and his own experiences.

1982

His first was Yellow Light (1982), and The River of Heaven (1988) was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

1988

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The River of Heaven (1988).

Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai'i.

He attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine.

Hongo has been awarded fellowships from the Watson Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Hongo is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon.

1989

From 1989 through 1993, he was the director of the university's Program in Creative Writing.

Hongo has published three books of poetry.

1994

Hongo has also worked as an editor on Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi (1994) and on The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993).

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Garett Hongo, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 30+ works in 70+ publications in two languages and 4,600+ library holdings.

1995

Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (1995) was awarded the 2006 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction.