Joanna Hong is a writer and translator from Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Dazed & Confused, The Guardian and other outlets, and she is a freelance journalist for The New York Times. In 2021, she was a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction and received support from Poets & Writers and The Readership. Joanna was a finalist for the LANDO grant from the de Groot Foundation and her work was shortlisted for the 2023 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. She is currently finishing her first novel.
Joanna has lived in England, Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea. She has worked in both public and private sectors, and has reported, written and translated stories about the arts, refugees, governments and human rights abuses. She speaks Korean, German, Italian, French and Spanish. She completed her MA in Human Rights at University College London.
Joanna lives in California with her husband. She is represented by Melissa Danaczko from Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc.