Jennifer Wong

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 later taught poetry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as poet-in-residence at Lingnan University.[6] She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006,[6] which focused on her time in England.[7] In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish,[8] which focused more on Hong Kong.[8]

In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.[9] Her work has also been featured in Tate Etc., the Frogmore Papers, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Aesthetica and Prairie Schooner.[1][10]

Currently living in London,[1] Wong represented Hong Kong at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad held in the city,[11][12] and was a speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival[13] and the Hong Kong Young Readers Festival in 2014. [14]

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