Wong studied English literature at University College, Oxford University. [2] She worked for the Hong Kong government as an administration officer, and later as a PR executive in the private sector. [3]
She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, [4] and a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. She taught poetry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as poet-in-residence at Lingnan University. [5]
She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006, [5] which focused on her time in England. [6] In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish, [7] which focused more on Hong Kong. [7] Her third collection, Letters Home [8] [9] published by Nine Arches Press in the UK in 2020, has been named the Wild Card Choice by the Poetry Book Society in the UK. [10]
In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. [11] Her work has been featured in Poetry London, [12] Poetry Foundation, [13] Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri, [14] The Scores, [15] Washington Square Review, [16] Tupleo Quarterly, Magma Poetry, The North, World Literature Today, [17] Wildness, [18] Asian Cha, Voice & Verse, Lincoln Review [19] and Finished Creatures. In 2015, she taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere [20] published by Bloomsbury in 2023 on the writing identities for Anglophone transnational poets from the contemporary Chinese diaspora. Together with Eddie Tay, she co-edited the new anthology State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation [21] (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues between poets of such heritage across continents.
She is a book reviewer and translator, and her work has appeared in Poetry Review, Pathlight, Modern Poetry in Translation, Asian Review of Books and Under the Radar among other publications.
Currently living in the United Kingdom, Wong represented Hong Kong at the Poetry 2012 Cultural Olympiad's Poetry Parnassus. [22] [23] Together with Wasafiri, she co-curated the Poetics of Home poetry festival in 2021. [24] She worked as writer-in-residence with Wasafiri in 2021. She was a visiting fellow for Oxford TORCH in 2022, producing a transnational anthology on the idea of home and personal history. [25] She has taught creative writing at Poetry School, [26] Arvon [27] and City Lit.
Bei Dao is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai. Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he is often regarded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to poetry, he is the author of short fiction, essays, and a memoir. Known as a dissident, he is a prominent representative of a school of poetry known variously in the West as "Misty" or "Obscure" Poetry.
Cyril Wong is a poet, fiction author and literary critic.
Sudeep Sen is an Indian English poet and editor.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. She was both the first woman and the first Asian person to be awarded Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, Crossing The Peninsula, which she published in 1980. In 1997, she received the American Book Award for her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces.
Imtiaz Dharker is a Pakistan-born British poet, artist, and video film maker. She won the Queen's Gold Medal for her English poetry and was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2020.
Xu Xi is an English language novelist from Hong Kong.
Alvin Pang was named 2005 Young Artist of the Year (Literature) by the National Arts Council Singapore. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English literature from the University of York and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002). In 2020, he was awarded a PhD in Writing from RMIT University, and appointed to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor of RMIT University in 2021. For his contributions, he was conferred the Singapore Youth Award in 2007, and the JCCI Foundation Education Award in 2008. He is listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English.
Ng Yi Sheng is a Singaporean gay writer. He has published a collection of his poems entitled last boy, which won the Singapore Literature Prize, and a documentary book on gay, lesbian and bisexual Singaporeans called SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century in 2006.
Dr. Ravi Shankar is an American poet, editor, and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT). He is the founding editor of online literary journal Drunken Boat. He has been called "a diaspora icon" by The Hindu and "one of America's finest younger poets" by former Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen.
Luisa A. Igloria is a Filipina American poet and author of various award-winning collections, and is the most recent Poet Laureate of Virginia (2020-2022).
Shawn K. Wong is a Chinese American author and scholar. He has served as the Professor of English, Director of the University Honors Program (2003–06), Chair of the Department of English (1997–2002), and Director of the Creative Writing Program (1995–97) at the University of Washington, where he has been on the faculty since 1984 and teaches courses covering critical theory, Asian American studies, which he is considered a pioneer in, and fiction writing. Wong received his undergraduate degree in English at the University of California Berkeley (1971) and a master's degree in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University (1974).
Nellie Wong is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first black person to hold the role since it was founded in 1820.
Rita Wong is a Canadian poet.
Mani Rao is an Indian poet and independent scholar, writing in English.
Timothy Ogene is a writer and lecturer at Harvard. He is the author of Descent & Other Poems,The Day Ends Like Any Day, and Seesaw.
Kaya Press is an independent non-profit publisher of writers of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. Founded in 1994 by the postmodern Korean writer Soo Kyung Kim, Kaya Press is currently housed in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Janet S. Wong is an American poet and author of children's books. She has written over 30 books, primarily poetry, picture books, and middle grade fiction. At the age of seven, she had an active imagination. She used this later in her life to write poetry and books. She is the co-creator of The Poetry Friday Anthology series and the Poetry Friday Power Book series, published by Pomelo Books. Her most recent book is HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving, an anthology of 100 poems by 90 poets that focuses on the topics of movement, the pandemic, and social justice. She is the winner of the 2021 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, a lifetime achievement award considered the most prestigious award that a children's poet can receive.
Kerry Young is a British writer, born in Jamaica. She is the author of three well received and interlinked novels: Pao (2011), Gloria (2013) and Show Me a Mountain (2016).