Jennifer Wong

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Jennifer Wong

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

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. ^ a b c 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, , 25 July 2012
  6. ^ Jennifer Wong - Crackdown, Morning Star, Spring 2019
  7. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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, , 2020
  13. ^ Jennifer Wong - Crackdown, , 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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