The Bill of Rights Awards are the ACLU of Southern California’s annual awards recognizing individuals and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of justice and equality. Cathy Park Hong (CRF 2021) will be honored for elevating, through her writings, the unspoken and unacknowledged traumas that Asian Americans face in this country.
Cathy Park Hong is the author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of poetry collections Engine Empire, published in 2012 by W.W. Norton, Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her prose and poetry have been published in the New York Times, New Republic, the Guardian, Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of the New Republic and is a full professor at Rutgers-Newark University. In 2021, Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The Bill of Rights Awards will take place virtually on December 5, 2021 at 5pm (PDT). Learn more about the awards and honorees here.