Claire Hong reads for Lunch Poems
Channel: UC Berkeley Events
Date: 2023-03-15

Claire Hong is the author of Upend (Noemi Press), which was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. She is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University (2019-2021) and an artist grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; she has creative writing degrees from the University of Arizona (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA). She was born in San Francisco, CA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ where she works to distribute arid-adapted crop seeds.

This reading is presented in partnership with the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley during their yearlong focus on indigeneity and reclamation.