Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai'i, on May 30, 1951. He attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan. He received his MFA in English from the University of California at Irvine.
His collections of poetry include Coral Road: Poems (Knopf, 2011); The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Yellow Light (Wesleyan University Press, 1982). He is also the author of The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (University of Michigan Press, 2017) and Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (Knopf, 1995), winner of the Oregon Book Award for nonfiction. Mr. Hongo is the 2022 recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
He is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon at Eugene, where he directed the creative writing program from 1989 to 1993. From https://poets.org
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The perfect sound : A memoir in stereo. by 
The perfect sound : A memoir in stereo. by 
Best American Poetry 2016 by 
Growing up Asian American by 
The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry by 
Songs My Mother Taught Me by 
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