Garrett Hongo's collections of poetry include CORAL ROAD: POEMS (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011); THE RIVER OF HEAVEN (1988), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and YELLOW LIGHT (1982). He is also the author of VOLCANO: A MEMOIR OF HAWAI'I (1995), and he has edited SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME: STORIES PLAY AND MEMOIR BY WAKAKO YAMAUCHI (1994) and THE OPEN BOAT: POEMS FROM ASIA AMERICA (1993). Hongo's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon at Eugene