Claire Hong

Claire Hong (she/her) has held positions as a writer, college instructor, program coordinator, gardener and farmer. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and lived in Brooklyn, NY and New Mexico for school and work before moving to Tucson in 2015 to begin an MFA degree in poetry at the University of Arizona. In 2018, she was a farm assistant at Las Milpitas Community Farm, a project of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. A poetry fellowship at Stanford University brought Claire back to the Bay Area from 2019-2022. She continued her food and community work as a farmhand at Radical Family Farms, a CSA Asian vegetable farm in Sebastopol, CA followed by a Garden and Education Manager position at City Slicker Farms in Oakland, CA. Claire returned to Tucson and worked at Native Seeds/SEARCH supporting development and as the Community Seed Programs Coordinator. 

She is dedicated to uplifting traditional foodways, distinct, and cross-cultural narratives through community collaboration. Claire is the author of Upend, a book of poems that retraces the lives of her Chinese and Tlingit ancestors through archival documents and family stories.

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