Jennifer Wong
Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.[1]
Biography
Wong studied English literature at University College, Oxford University.[2] She worked for the Hong Kong government as an administration officer, and later as a PR executive in the private sector.[3]
She gained an MA in
She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006,[5] which focused on her time in England.[6] In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish,[7] which focused more on Hong Kong.[7] Her third collection, Letters Home[8] [9] 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.[10]
In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.[11] Her work has been featured in Poetry London,[12] Poetry Foundation,[13] Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri,[14] The Scores,[15] Washington Square Review,[16] Tupleo Quarterly, Magma Poetry, The North, World Literature Today,[17] Wildness,[18] Asian Cha, Voice & Verse, Lincoln Review[19] and Finished Creatures. In 2015, she taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere[20] published by Bloomsbury in 2023 on the writing identities for Anglophone transnational poets from the contemporary Chinese diaspora. Together with Eddie Tay, she co-edited the new anthology State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation[21] (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues between poets of such heritage across continents.
She is a book reviewer and translator, and her work has appeared in
Currently living in the
References
- ^ Jennifer Wong, UCity Review
- ^ Summer Cicadas, South China Morning Post, 15 October 2006
- ^ Oxford poet who loves creativity (in Chinese), Hong Kong Economic Times, 2 April 2007, archived from the original on 27 September 2014
- ^ Jennifer Wong - Two Poems, World Literature Today, 25 July 2012
- ^ a b Kate Kilalea, Agnes Lehoczky and Jennifer Wong at Poetry Parnassus, New Writing, 6 July 2012
- ^ Goldfish, by Jennifer Wong, South China Morning Post, 8 September 2013
- ^ a b Books, Time Out Hong Kong, 3–16 July 2013, p. 68
- ^ Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Poetry Review, 2020
- ^ Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Asian Review of Books, 2020
- ^ "Spring 2020". The Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
- ^ 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". Mysite. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ bloomsbury.com. "Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "**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.
- ^ Former AO and local female poet to take part in London Olympics alongside Nobel prizewinner (in Chinese), Apple Daily, 1 April 2012
- ^ Gobbling Down Auspicious Chinese Dishes at New Year, Asia Literary Review, archived from the original on 2013-04-10
- ^ "Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival". Wasafiri Magazine. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Dr Jennifer Wong". www.torch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Jennifer Wong, Author at Poetry School". Poetry School. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Jennifer Wong". Arvon. Retrieved 2023-09-04.