cathy park hong+mark mcmorris October 17, 2007

Cathy Park Hong's second book, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her first book, Translating Mo'um, was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She has written articles and reviews for The Village Voice, The Guardian, and Salon. Currently, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Mark McMorris is a poet and critic who was born in Jamaica. He has been writer in residence at Brown University, and Roberta C. Holloway Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Blaze of the Poui, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; and The Black Reeds, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series prize from the University of Georgia Press. The Café at Light, a text of lyric dialogue, appeared in 2004 from Roof Books. He is currently an associate professor of English at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.

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