Tanya Ko-Hong

Tanya (Hyonhye) Ko Hong is a internationally published poet, translator, and cultural-curator who champions bilingual poetry and poets. Born and raised in Suk Su Dong, South Korea, she immigrated to the US at the age of eighteen. She is the author of fivebooks:The War Still Within(forthcoming from KYSO Flash Press, 2019),Mother to Myself: A collection of poems in Korean(Prunsasang Press, 2015), Yellow Flowers on a Rainy Day(Oma Books, 2003), Mother’s Diary of Generation(Qumran, 2002), and Generation One Point Five(Esprit 1993). 

Her poetry appears in Rattle, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cultural Weekly, The Feminist Press, Lunch Ticket, great weather for MEDIA, Califragile, Choson Iibo, Korea Times, Korea Central Daily News, and the Aeolian Harp Series Anthology, among others. Tanya’s work has won the Yun Doon-ju Korean-American Literature Award, was a finalist in Frontier’s Chapbook Contest, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

In 2015, her segmented poem “Comfort Woman” received an honorable mention from the Women’s National Book Association. In 2015 and 2018, she became the first person to translate and publish Arthur Sze’s poems in Korean. Tanya holds an MFA degree from Antioch University in Los Angeles, California, and is a Ph.D. student in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She lives in southern California  with her husband and three children.