Eileen Chong | |
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| Born | 1980 Singapore |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Years active | 2004- |
| Notable works | Painting Red Orchids |
Eileen Chong (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary poet. [1]
Eileen Chong | |
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| Born | 1980 Singapore |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Years active | 2004- |
| Notable works | Painting Red Orchids |
Eileen Chong (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary poet. [1]
Chong was born in Singapore in 1980. She is of Hakka, Hokkien, and Peranakan descent. She grew up speaking English, Mandarin, and Hokkien. [2] [3] Chong studied English language and literature at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and taught literature in secondary schools. [3] [4]
She migrated to Sydney, Australia, in 2007. [5] After moving to Sydney she undertook a Masters of Letters at the University of Sydney. [4] [6]
Chong was awarded the Poets Union Youth Fellowship in 2010. [6]
In 2011–12, Chong was an Australian Poetry Fellow, which led to the publication of her first book Burning Rice. [6]
In 2016, Chong was poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the Bundanon Trust. [7] [8]
From 2019 to 2023, Chong's first book, Burning Rice, was on the New South Wales’ Higher School Certificate syllabus for English Extension . This book was the first poetry collection by an Asian-Australian poet to be on the New South Wales’ English syllabus for the Higher School Certificate from 2019 to 2023. [6] Chong's poem, ‘My Hakka Grandmother’, is part of a suite of poems from Contemporary Asian Australian Poets [9] on the NSW HSC syllabus for English, 2019–2023.
Eileen Chong reflected on her upbringing and its influence on themes in her writing:
"To paraphrase Wittgenstein, the limits of the world I grew up in were very much defined by the language of food. Ancestor worship and veneration centered around food offerings; my grandparents and parents certainly never told me they loved me when I was growing up, but they would ask if I was hungry, and they would do whatever it took to feed me, and they fed me well." [2] [10]
She is married to Colin Cassidy, her illustrator and husband. [11]
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