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Monica Ong is a visual poet whose debut collection, Silent Anatomies (2015), was selected by U.S. Poet Laureate 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 is also the founder of Proxima Vera, a micro-press for visual poetry and literary art objects, many of which are now part of distinguished institutional collections worldwide. 

Planetaria, her exhibition of astronomy-inspired visual poetry was featured at the Poetry Foundation in 2022 and the Hunterdon Art Museum in 2023. She has new work forthcoming this spring in the anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Literary Collection published by Fonograf Editions. In 2024, she was named a United States Artists Fellow.