Khanh Ho is a native of Vietnam but immigrated to sunny Los Angeles at an early age; in a past life, he was a surfer of the most beautiful spots in its tragically polluted bay. Then, he got an ear infection and developed his passion for the grand coral reef that is literature. He teaches 19th and 20th Century literature. He specializes in Comparative Ethnic Literatures. He also teaches Creative Writing. Khanh’s current scholarly project Migrant Awakenings: Religion in the Literatures of Asian America entails a timely reevaluation of spirituality in its multifarious, multi-faceted forms within Asian American literature. The monograph examines the supernumerary ways religion has been deployed for social, political and personal transformation. Khanh’s fiction has been used in various high school and college level curricula nationwide. He has a short story forthcoming, contracted with the University of Hawaii Press; as the final story in what, no doubt, will be a treasury of verbal splendors, it will anchor the edited anthology Viet. Khanh is a founding member of CRAG: Class Race and Gender at Grinnell. He served on the Advisory Council for the museum exhibition “Sacred Seattle…” He is also a sometime blogger for the Huffington Post and the Diasporic Vietnamese Arts Network where, he believes, his digitized opinions are a tsunami, bearing down on the lost island of our consciousness. He also likes to cook.
