Biography
Wong studied English literature at Oxford University. [2] 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. [3] Her first UK collection, Letters Home [4] [5] (Nine Arches Press 2020), which explores questions of migration, [6] language, [7] art [8] and racial identities, was a Poetry Books Society Wild Card Choice.
Her writing has been included in Poetry London, [9] Oxford Poetry, Wasafiri, [10] Washington Square Review, [11] The Scores [12] , Magma Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly [13] , Sinetheta, [14] Oxonian Review [15] , World Literature Today, [16] Wildness, [17] Asian Cha, Under the Radar [18] and Lincoln Review. [19]
She is the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere: Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry [20] [21] 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 [22] (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues and correspondences between poets.
Together with Wasafiri , she co-curated a Poetics of Home Poetry Festival in 2021. [23] 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, [24] City Lit, Oxford Brookes University [25] and Arvon. [26]
Publications
Time Difference [27] (Verve, 2024)
Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry [21] (Bloomsbury 2023)
Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology [28] (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 [22] (Outspoken Press, 2023). Co-edited with Eddie Tay
Letters Home [4] [5] (Nine Arches Press 2020)
Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl [29] (Bitter Melon Poetry, 2019)
Goldfish [30] (Chameleon Press 2014)
Summer Cicadas [2] (Chameleon Press 2006)
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