Monica Ong is a visual poet who brings a designer’s eye to experimental literature through innovative bookworks, fine press broadsides, and installations that surface hidden narratives of women and family diaspora. Her most recent series of astronomy-inspired visual poetry was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation and is the basis of her collection Planetaria: Visual Poetry (2025) published by Proxima Vera with a foreword by John Yau. She is also the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo for the Kore Press First Book Award.

You can find her visual poetry editions and literary art objects in distinguished institutional collections worldwide, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford, Letterform Archive, and the Library of Congress. Her poetry has been featured in Scientific American, ctrl+v, Poetry Magazine, and in the anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection (Fonograf Editions). In 2024, Ong was honored as a United States Artists Fellow.