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Dorothy Hom

Dorothy Hom

Sights

Originally published in New Plains Review, Spring 2022

Oct 9, 2022

Sights

Oct 9, 2022

Dorothy Hom

When Someone Believes in You More Than Yourself

Melissa Bank gave her students encouragement. Losing her means we can still empower ourselves.

Aug 9, 2022

When Someone Believes in You More Than Yourself

Aug 9, 2022

Dorothy Hom

Garden Stories 2022

The Westhampton Garden Club’s 2022 House & Garden Tour features seven unique properties lush with plantings, each with a warmhearted…

Jul 11, 2022

Garden Stories 2022

Jul 11, 2022

Dorothy Hom

An End Inspires Multiple Beginnings

Taking in my aging mother revives a past and projects a future.

Aug 25, 2021

An End Inspires Multiple Beginnings

Aug 25, 2021

Dorothy Hom

I Am Your Chink!

Shopping these days while wearing a face mask, I brace for the instant my visible slanty eyes betray me as Chinese. Reading the news about…

May 4, 2020

I Am Your Chink!

May 4, 2020

Dorothy Hom

A Loss Reminds Me Why My Mother Destroyed the Past

My mother, Yoke Won Hom, my father, Tun Funn Hom, and I at the September 2009 opening of Museum of Chinese in America. A video describing…

Feb 6, 2020

A Loss Reminds Me Why My Mother Destroyed the Past

Feb 6, 2020

Dorothy Hom

Maybe Voltaire was Wrong

Yesterday I felt nauseous. The news of a death from the clash between White Nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, VA…

Aug 13, 2017

Maybe Voltaire was Wrong

Aug 13, 2017

Dorothy Hom

A Woman’s Point of View (vs. that of a Man’s)

Eyes closed, body at rest, I inhaled thinking, “here” and exhaled thinking, “now”, following writer Dani Shapiro’s instructions to empty my…

Sep 26, 2016

A Woman’s Point of View (vs. that of a Man’s)

Sep 26, 2016

Dorothy Hom

Now I Understand How Germany Created Hitler

After months of avoiding the astonishing, unimaginable train-wreck that is the Republican primary campaign, I finally turned on the TV to…

Mar 3, 2016

Now I Understand How Germany Created Hitler

Mar 3, 2016

Dorothy Hom

A Block Party in Burma

Drawn by a squalling loudspeaker, scurrying children, and the colorful array of suspended lights parading down the alleyway, we peered into…

Dec 31, 2015

A Block Party in Burma

Dec 31, 2015

Dorothy Hom

Dorothy Hom

Dorothy is featured in The Southampton Review, Edible East End, Hippocampus, Eastlit, Lumen, and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Stony Brook University.

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