Jennifer Wong
Jennifer Wong is a woman poet and writer from Hong Kong.
Biography
Wong studied English literature at Oxford University. She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia and a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. In 2005, she taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as writer-in-residence at Lingnan University in 2012. Her first UK collection, , which explores questions of migration, language, art and racial identities, was a Poetry Books Society Wild Card Choice.Her writing has been included in Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri, Washington Square Review, The Scores', Magma Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly', Sinetheta, ''Oxonian Review, World Literature Today, Wildness, Asian Cha, Under the Radar and Lincoln Review.
She is the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere: Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Together with Eddie Tay, she co-edited the anthology State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation featuring dialogues and correspondences between poets.
Together with Wasafiri, she co-curated a Poetics of Home Poetry Festival in 2021. She worked as a writer-in-residence with Wasafiri'' in 2021 and a visiting fellow for The Oxford [Research Centre in the Humanities|Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)] in 2022. She has taught creative writing at Poetry School, City Lit, Oxford Brookes University and Arvon.
Publications
Time DifferenceIdentity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry
Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology. Co-edited with Jason Eng Hun Lee and Tim Tim Cheng
State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation. Co-edited with Eddie Tay
Letters Home
Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl
Goldfish
Summer Cicadas ''