Cathy Song

About

Won the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for Picture Bride, her second collection of poems.

Before Fame

She relocated to Honolulu from Wahiawa with her family when she was seven years old.

Trivia

She won the annual Literature Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Family Life

Her parents, Andrew and Ella Song, raised her with her two siblings in Wahaiwa, Hawai'i.

Associated With

Richard Hugo called her poems sensual and colorful.