Cathy Song

Cathy Song (born August 20, 1955) is an Asian-American poet. She is the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection Picture Bride. Song now resides in Kahala, Hawaii. Song was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii. She was the second of three children born to Ella, an immigrant from China who was a seamstress, and Andrew Song, who is Korean, and worked as an airline pilot. In 1962, when she was 7 years old, the family relocated to Honolulu. Song graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and from Boston University in 1981 with a master's degree in Creative Writing. While living in Boston, she married Douglas Davenport, then a physician-in-training. In 1984, they moved to Colorado for Davenport's...