Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.[1]
Biography
editWong studied English literature at University College, Oxford University.[2] She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia and a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University.
Before moving to the UK, she also worked in the government and in corporate communications in the property sector. In 2005, she taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as writer-in-residence at Lingnan University in 2012.
She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006,[3] which focused on her time in England.[4] In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish,[5] which focused more on Hong Kong.[5]
Her first UK collection, Letters Home[6][7] (Nine Arches Press 2020) has been named by Anthony Anaxagorou for the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.
In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.[8] Her work has been featured in Poetry London,[9] Poetry Foundation,[10] Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri,[11] The Scores,[12] Washington Square Review,[13] Tupelo Quarterly, Magma Poetry, The North, World Literature Today,[14] Wildness,[15] Asian Cha, Voice & Verse, Lincoln Review[16] and Finished Creatures.
She is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere[17] published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Together with Eddie Tay, she co-edited the new anthology State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation[18] (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues between poets of such heritage across continents.
She is a book reviewer and translator, currently living in the UK. Together with Wasafiri, she co-curated the Poetics of Home poetry festival in 2021.[19] She worked as writer-in-residence with Wasafiri in 2021 and a visiting fellow for Oxford TORCH in 2022. She has taught creative writing at different institutions including Poetry School[20], City Lit, Oxford Brookes University and Arvon[21].
Publications
editHome, Identity and Writing Elsewhere[17] (Bloomsbury 2023)
Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology[22] (Verve Poetry Press, 2023), Co-edited with Jason Eng Hun Lee and Tim Tim Cheng
State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation[18] (Outspoken Press, 2023), Co-edited with Eddie Tay
Letters Home[6][7] (Nine Arches Press 2020)
Goldfish[4] (Chameleon Press 2014)
Summer Cicadas[2] (Chameleon Press 2006)
References
edit- ^ Jennifer Wong, UCity Review
- ^ a b Summer Cicadas, South China Morning Post, 15 October 2006
- ^ Kate Kilalea, Agnes Lehoczky and Jennifer Wong at Poetry Parnassus, New Writing, 6 July 2012
- ^ a b Goldfish, by Jennifer Wong, South China Morning Post, 8 September 2013
- ^ a b Books, Time Out Hong Kong, 3–16 July 2013, p. 68
- ^ a b Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Poetry Review, 2020
- ^ a b Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Asian Review of Books, 2020
- ^ Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013 Commend Outstanding Artists and Organisations, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 26 April 2014
- ^ "Summer 2022 • Issue 102 – Shop". Poetry London. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (2023-09-04). "Jennifer Wong". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Houhai by Jennifer Wong". Wasafiri Magazine. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Jennifer Wong". The Scores. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Leng-Shuang". Washington Square Review. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Two Poems, by Jennifer Wong". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Issue No. 17 | wildness". readwildness.com. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Poems by Jennifer Wong". Lincoln Review. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ a b bloomsbury.com. "Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ a b "**PRE-ORDER** State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, Edited by Eddie Tay & Jennifer Wong". Out-Spoken. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival". Wasafiri Magazine. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Jennifer Wong, Author at Poetry School". Poetry School. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Jennifer Wong". Arvon. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology [2023]". Retrieved 2024-07-01.