Jennifer Wong
{{Short description|Hong Kong writer and poet}}
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Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.{{Citation
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| publisher = UCity Review
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Biography
Wong studied English literature at University College, Oxford University.{{Citation
| date = 15 October 2006
| title = Summer Cicadas
| publisher = South China Morning Post
| url = http://www.scmp.com/node/567673
}} 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 is the author of Summer Cicadas{{Citation
| date = 6 July 2012
| title = Kate Kilalea, Agnes Lehoczky and Jennifer Wong at Poetry Parnassus
| publisher = New Writing
| url = http://www.newwriting.net/2012/07/kate-kilalea-agnes-lehoczky-and-jennifer-wong-at-poetry-parnassus/
}} (Chameleon, 2006) and Goldfish{{Citation
| date = 3–16 July 2013
| title = Books
| publisher = Time Out Hong Kong
| page = 68
}} (Chameleon, 2013). Her first UK collection, [https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/letters-home.html Letters Home]{{Citation
| date = 2020
| title = Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong
| publisher = Poetry Review
| url = https://poetrysociety.org.uk/publications/vol-110-no-1-spring-2020/
| date = 2020
| title = Letters Home, by Jennifer Wong
| publisher = Asian Review of Books
| url = https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/letters-home-by-jennifer-wong/
}} (Nine Arches Press 2020) has been named by Anthony Anaxagorou for the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.
Her work has been featured in Poetry London,{{Cite web |title=Summer 2022 • Issue 102 – Shop |url=https://poetrylondon.co.uk/shop/summer-2022-issue-102/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Poetry London |language=en}} Poetry Foundation,{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2023-09-04 |title=Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jennifer-wong |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}} Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri,{{Cite web |title=Houhai by Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.wasafiri.org/article/houhai-by-jennifer-wong/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Wasafiri Magazine |language=en-GB}} Washington Square Review,{{Cite web |title=Leng-Shuang |url=https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/lengshuang |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Washington Square Review |language=en-US}} Tupelo Quarterly, Sinetheta,{{Cite web |title=Sine Theta Magazine |url=https://sinetheta.net/29.html |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=sinetheta.net}} Magma Poetry, World Literature Today,{{Cite web |title=Two Poems, by Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/spring/two-poems-jennifer-wong |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=World Literature Today |language=en}} Wildness,{{Cite web |title=Issue No. 17 {{!}} wildness |url=https://readwildness.com/17/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=readwildness.com}} Asian Cha and Lincoln Review.{{Cite web |title=Poems by Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.lincolnreview.org/jwong |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Lincoln Review |language=en}}
She is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere{{Cite web |last=bloomsbury.com |title=Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/identity-home-and-writing-elsewhere-in-contemporary-chinese-diaspora-poetry-9781350250352/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}} 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{{Cite web |title=State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, Edited by Eddie Tay & Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/state-of-play-poets-of-east-southeast-asian-heritage-in-conversation-eddie-tay-jennifer-wong |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=London Review Bookshop |language=en-GB}} (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues between poets of such heritage across continents.
Together with Wasafiri, she co-curated the Poetics of Home poetry festival in 2021.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-20 |title=Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival |url=https://www.wasafiri.org/poetics-of-home-a-chinese-diaspora-poetry-festival/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Wasafiri Magazine |language=en-GB}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Wong, Author at Poetry School |url=https://poetryschool.com/members/jenniferwong/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Poetry School |language=en-GB}} City Lit, Oxford Brookes University and Arvon.{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.arvon.org/tutors/jennifer-wong/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Arvon}}
Publications
Time Difference{{Cite web |title=time difference - Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page/time-difference-jennifer-wong |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Verve Poetry Booksho |language=en}} (Verve, 2024)
Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere (Bloomsbury 2023)
Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology{{Cite web |title=WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology [2023] |url=https://vervepoetrypress.com/product/where-else-an-international-hong-kong-poetry-anthology-pre-order-out-apr-23/ |access-date=2024-07-01 |language=en-US}} (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)
Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl{{Cite web |title=[Digital PDF version] Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl by Jennifer Wong |url=https://bittermelon.weebly.com/store/p4/%5BDigital_PDF_version%5D_Diary_of_a_Miu_Miu_Salesgirl_by_Jennifer_Wong.html |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=bitter melon poetry |language=en}} (Bitter Melon Poetry, 2019)
Goldfish{{Citation |title=Goldfish, by Jennifer Wong |date=8 September 2013 |url=http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1304768/goldfish-jennifer-wong |publisher=South China Morning Post}} (Chameleon Press 2014)
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Category:Hong Kong women poets
Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Category:Academic staff of Lingnan University
Category:2012 Cultural Olympiad