Jennifer Wong Explained

Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.

Biography

Wong studied English literature at University College, 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.

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, which focused on her time in England. In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish, which focused more on Hong Kong.

Her first UK collection, Letters Home (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. Her work has been featured in Poetry London,^[1] Poetry Foundation,^[2] Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri,^[3] The Scores,^[4] Washington Square Review,^[5] Tupelo Quarterly, Magma Poetry, The North, World Literature Today,^[6] Wildness,^[7] Asian Cha, Voice & Verse, Lincoln Review^[8] and Finished Creatures.

She is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere^[9] 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^[10] (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.^[11] 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,^[12] City Lit, Oxford Brookes University and Arvon.^[13]

Publications

Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury 2023)

Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology^[14] (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 (Outspoken Press, 2023), Co-edited with Eddie Tay

Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020)

Goldfish (Chameleon Press 2014)

Summer Cicadas (Chameleon Press 2006)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Summer 2022 • Issue 102 – Shop . 2023-09-04 . Poetry London . en.
2. Web site: Foundation . Poetry . 2023-09-04 . Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . Poetry Foundation . en.
3. Web site: Houhai by Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . Wasafiri Magazine . en-GB.
4. Web site: 2018-05-01 . Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . The Scores . en-GB.
5. Web site: Leng-Shuang . 2023-09-04 . Washington Square Review . en-US.
6. Web site: Two Poems, by Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . World Literature Today . en.
7. Web site: Issue No. 17 wildness . 2023-09-04 . readwildness.com.
8. Web site: Poems by Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . Lincoln Review . en.
9. Web site: bloomsbury.com . Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry . 2023-09-04 . Bloomsbury . en.
10. Web site: **PRE-ORDER** State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, Edited by Eddie Tay & Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . Out-Spoken . en-GB.
11. Web site: 2021-09-20 . Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival . 2023-09-04 . Wasafiri Magazine . en-GB.
12. Web site: Jennifer Wong, Author at Poetry School . 2023-09-04 . Poetry School . en-GB.
13. Web site: Jennifer Wong . 2023-09-04 . Arvon.
14. Web site: WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology [2023] ]. 2024-07-01 . en-US.