Jennifer Wong
{{Short description|Hong Kong writer and poet}}
Jennifer Wong is a woman poet and writer from Hong Kong.{{Cite web |last=Lam |first=Doris |title=7 Female Poets From Hong Kong To Know |url=https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/female-asian-poets-hong-kong |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Tatler Asia |language=en}}
Biography
Wong studied English literature at Oxford University.{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jennifer-wong |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=The Poetry Foundation}} She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia and a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. In 2005, she taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as writer-in-residence at Lingnan University in 2012.{{Cite web |title='Goldfish' by Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.newwriting.net/2013/05/%E2%80%98goldfish%E2%80%99-by-jennifer-wong/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=www.newwriting.net}} 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), which explores questions of migration,{{Cite web |last=Williamson |first=Heidi |date=2020-04-27 |title=Review: 'Letters Home' by Jennifer Wong • Poetry School |url=https://poetryschool.com/theblog/review-letters-home-by-jennifer-wong/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Poetry School |language=en-GB}} language,{{Cite journal |last=Lee |first=Gregory B. |date=2023-11-02 |title=Hong Kong echoes across English ghost lands: A decolonizing of English-language poetry |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2281405 |journal=Journal of Postcolonial Writing |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=768–783 |doi=10.1080/17449855.2023.2281405 |issn=1744-9855|hdl=10023/28847 |hdl-access=free }} art{{Cite web |title=Chinese and City Aesthetics: A Conversation with Jennifer Wong, by Antony Huen |url=https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/may/chinese-and-city-aesthetics-conversation-jennifer-wong-antony-huen |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=World Literature Today |language=en}} and racial identities, was a Poetry Books Society Wild Card Choice.
Her writing has been included in Poetry London,{{Cite web |title=Summer 2022 • Issue 102 |url=https://poetrylondon.co.uk/shop/summer-2022-issue-102/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Poetry London |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}} The Scores{{Cite web |date=2018-05-01 |title=Jennifer Wong |url=https://thescores.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/jennifer-wong/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=The Scores |language=en-GB}}, Magma Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly{{Cite web |last=Pathak |first=Yamini |date=2022-12-14 |title=A Portfolio of Poetry by Jennifer Wong |url=https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/jennifer-wong-uk-poems/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Tupelo Quarterly |language=en-US}}, Sinetheta,{{Cite web |last=Sinetheta |title=Sine Theta Magazine |url=https://sinetheta.net/29.html |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Sinetheta}} Oxonian Review{{Cite web |title=婆婆 (Por Por) |url=https://oxonianreview.com/articles/por-por |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=The Oxonian Review |language=en}}, 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, Under the Radar{{Cite web |title=Story |url=https://ninearchespress.com/shop |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Nine Arches Press |language=en-us}} 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 Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere: Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry{{Cite journal |last=Li |first=Dian |date=December 2023 |title=Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry Jennifer Wong. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. xiv + 231 pp. £80.00 (hbk). ISBN 978350250338 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/identity-home-and-writing-elsewhere-in-contemporary-chinese-diaspora-poetry-jennifer-wong-london-and-new-york-bloomsbury-academic-2023-xiv-231-pp-8000-hbk-isbn-978350250338/4F433992E17D764FA5EBF7A99F3DA075 |journal=The China Quarterly |language=en |volume=256 |pages=1140–1141 |doi=10.1017/S0305741023001078 |issn=0305-7410|url-access=subscription }}{{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 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 and correspondences between poets.
Together with Wasafiri, she co-curated a 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 a writer-in-residence with Wasafiri in 2021 and a visiting fellow for Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) in 2022. She has taught creative writing at 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{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9805-6448 |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=orcid.org}} 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)
Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry (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