Monica Ong  is a visual poet and the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong’s work innovates on text+image to surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora.

You can find recent work featured in Redivider, ctrl+v, Waxwing Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Seneca Review, Asian American Literary Review, and anthologized in Spectral Lines: Poems about Scientists, and Poesia Visual 5. Ong has also been awarded residencies at the Studios at MassMoCA, Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo.