Jennifer Wong

Jennifer Wong is a woman poet and writer from Hong Kong.[1]

Biography

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]

Publications

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)

References

  1. ^ Lam, Doris. "7 Female Poets From Hong Kong To Know". Tatler Asia. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  2. ^ a b "Jennifer Wong". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  3. ^ "'Goldfish' by Jennifer Wong". www.newwriting.net. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  4. ^ a b Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Poetry Review, 2020
  5. ^ a b Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Asian Review of Books, 2020
  6. ^ Williamson, Heidi (2020-04-27). "Review: 'Letters Home' by Jennifer Wong • Poetry School". Poetry School. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  7. ^ Lee, Gregory B. (2023-11-02). "Hong Kong echoes across English ghost lands: A decolonizing of English-language poetry". Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 59 (6): 768–783. doi:10.1080/17449855.2023.2281405. hdl:10023/28847. ISSN 1744-9855.
  8. ^ "Chinese and City Aesthetics: A Conversation with Jennifer Wong, by Antony Huen". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  9. ^ "Summer 2022 • Issue 102". Poetry London. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  10. ^ "Houhai by Jennifer Wong". Wasafiri Magazine. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  11. ^ "Leng-Shuang". Washington Square Review. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  12. ^ "Jennifer Wong". The Scores. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  13. ^ Pathak, Yamini (2022-12-14). "A Portfolio of Poetry by Jennifer Wong". Tupelo Quarterly. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  14. ^ Sinetheta. "Sine Theta Magazine". Sinetheta. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  15. ^ "婆婆 (Por Por)". The Oxonian Review. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  16. ^ "Two Poems, by Jennifer Wong". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  17. ^ "Issue No. 17 | wildness". readwildness.com. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  18. ^ "Story". Nine Arches Press. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  19. ^ "Poems by Jennifer Wong". Lincoln Review. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  20. ^ Li, Dian (December 2023). "Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry Jennifer Wong. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. xiv + 231 pp. £80.00 (hbk). ISBN 978350250338". The China Quarterly. 256: 1140–1141. doi:10.1017/S0305741023001078. ISSN 0305-7410.
  21. ^ a b bloomsbury.com. "Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  22. ^ a b "State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, Edited by Eddie Tay & Jennifer Wong". London Review Bookshop. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  23. ^ "Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival". Wasafiri Magazine. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  24. ^ "Jennifer Wong, Author at Poetry School". Poetry School. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  25. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  26. ^ "Jennifer Wong". Arvon. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  27. ^ "time difference - Jennifer Wong". Verve Poetry Booksho. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  28. ^ "WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology [2023]". Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  29. ^ "[Digital PDF version] Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl by Jennifer Wong". bitter melon poetry. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  30. ^ Goldfish, by Jennifer Wong, South China Morning Post, 8 September 2013
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