Jennifer Wong
Speaker
Jennifer Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong and now based in the UK. She studied English at Oxford University and earned an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She has a creative writing PhD on Chinese diaspora poetry at Oxford Brookes University. Wong is the author of three poetry collections including 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press, 2020), which was the PBS Spring 2020 Wild Card Choice. She has taught creative writing at Poetry School, Oxford Brookes University, City Lit and was writer in residence at Wasafiri in 2011. She is a current visiting fellow at Oxford TORCH. Her book, Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic.
