Jennifer Wong

An alumnus of the Diocesan Girls' School,[2] Wong studied English literature at University College, Oxford.[3] Between 2001 and 2005 she worked for the Hong Kong government as an administration officer, and later as a PR executive in the private sector.[4]

She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia,[5] and a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University, [6]. She taught poetry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as poet-in-residence at Lingnan University.[7]. Currently she lectures at Oxford Brookes University and Poetry School.

She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006,[7] which focused on her time in England.[8] In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish,[9] which focused more on Hong Kong.[9]. Her third collection, Letters Home[10] [11] [12] published by Nine Arches Press in the UK in 2020, has been named the Wild Card Choice by the Poetry Book Society in the UK.[13]

In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.[14] Her work has also been featured in Tate Etc., the Frogmore Papers, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Aesthetica and Prairie Schooner.[1][15]

Currently living in London,[1] Wong represented Hong Kong at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad held in the city,[16][17] and has been a speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival[18] and the Hong Kong Young Readers Festival in 2014. [19]