Cathy Song

b. August, 20, 1955, Honolulu, Hawai'i

studied University of Hawai'i Manoa, where she worked with poet-critic John Unterecker

B.A. from Wellesley College 1977

M.F.A. from Boston University 1981

married to Dr. Douglas Davenport

two children

returned to Hawai'i in 1987 and has remained there ever since

member of the Bamboo Ridge study group

teaches in the Poets in the Schools program


Cathy Song

Cathy Song - "The Hand That Feeds" - wonderful poem in Ploughshares, the Literary Journal at Emerson College, Spring 1992

Cathy Song - Montgomery College page

Cathy Song with Juliet S. Kono, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and Nora Okja Keller at Cafe Laniakea - four-way interview by By Cynthia Oi of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Bamboo Ridge - Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts


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