Monica Ong is a visual poet and 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 has been awarded residencies most recently at MassMoCA, Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Based in Connecticut, she serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory.