Jennifer Wong

Wong studied English literature at 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. In 2005, she taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as writer-in-residence at Lingnan University in 2012.^[3] Her first UK collection, Letters Home^[4][5] (Nine Arches Press 2020), which explores questions of migration,^[6] language,^[7] art^[8] and racial identities, was a Poetry Books Society Wild Card Choice.

Her writing has been included in Poetry London,^[9] Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri,^[10] Washington Square Review,^[11] The Scores^[12], Magma Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly^[13], Sinetheta,^[14] Oxonian Review^[15], World Literature Today,^[16] Wildness,^[17] Asian Cha, Under the Radar^[18] and Lincoln Review.^[19]

She is the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere: Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry^[20][21] 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^[22] (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues and correspondences between poets.

Together with Wasafiri, she co-curated a Poetics of Home Poetry Festival in 2021.^[23] She worked as a writer-in-residence with Wasafiri in 2021 and a visiting fellow for Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) in 2022. She has taught creative writing at Poetry School,^[24] City Lit, Oxford Brookes University^[25] and Arvon.^[26]

Time Difference^[27] (Verve, 2024)

Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry^[21] (Bloomsbury 2023)

Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology^[28] (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^[22] (Outspoken Press, 2023). Co-edited with Eddie Tay

Letters Home^[4][5] (Nine Arches Press 2020)

Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl^[29] (Bitter Melon Poetry, 2019)

Goldfish^[30] (Chameleon Press 2014)

Summer Cicadas^[2] (Chameleon Press 2006)