Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951[citation needed]) is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet.

His work draws on Japanese American history and his own experiences.

Hongo is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon.

[citation needed] Hongo has also worked as an editor on Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi (1994) and on The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993).

[citation needed] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Garett Hongo, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 30+ works in 70+ publications in two languages and 4,600+ library holdings.