Jennifer Wong

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

Jennifer Wong

Biography

An alumnus of the Diocesan Girls' School,[2] Wong studied English literature at University College, Oxford.[3] Between 2001 and 2005 she worked for the Hong Kong government as an administration officer, and later as a PR executive in the private sector.[4]

She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia,[5] and a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University, .[6] She taught poetry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as poet-in-residence at Lingnan University.[7] Currently she lectures at Oxford Brookes University and Poetry School.

She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006,[7] which focused on her time in England.[8] In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish,[9] which focused more on Hong Kong.[9] Her third collection, Letters Home[10] [11] [12] 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.[13]

In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.[14] Her work has also been featured in Tate Etc., the Frogmore Papers, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Aesthetica and Prairie Schooner.[1][15]

Currently living in London,[1] Wong represented Hong Kong at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad held in the city,[16][17] and has been a speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival[18] and the Hong Kong Young Readers Festival in 2014. [19]

References
  1. Jennifer Wong, UCity Review
  2. Olympiad poet Jennifer Wong (in Chinese), iMoney (Hong Kong Economic Times), 12 May 2012
  3. Summer Cicadas, South China Morning Post, 15 October 2006
  4. Oxford poet who loves creativity (in Chinese), Hong Kong Economic Times, 2 April 2007, archived from the original on 27 September 2014
  5. Jennifer Wong - Two Poems, World Literature Today, 25 July 2012
  6. Jennifer Wong - Crackdown, Morning Star, Spring 2019
  7. Kate Kilalea, Agnes Lehoczky and Jennifer Wong at Poetry Parnassus, New Writing, 6 July 2012
  8. Goldfish, by Jennifer Wong, South China Morning Post, 8 September 2013
  9. Books, Time Out Hong Kong, 3–16 July 2013, p. 68
  10. Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Poetry Review, 2020
  11. Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Poetry School, 2020
  12. Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong, Asian Review of Books, 2020
  13. Jennifer Wong - Crackdown, Poetry Book Society, Spring 2020
  14. Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013 Commend Outstanding Artists and Organisations, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 26 April 2014
  15. Poem of the month: Reimagined Garden, Tate Etc., Autumn 2012
  16. Former AO and local female poet to take part in London Olympics alongside Nobel prizewinner (in Chinese), Apple Daily, 1 April 2012
  17. Gobbling Down Auspicious Chinese Dishes at New Year, Asia Literary Review, archived from the original on 2013-04-10
  18. All events featuring Jennifer Wong, Hong Kong International Literary Festival
  19. Books Aren't Boring, South China Morning Post, 10 March 2014
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