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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jennifer Wong, UCity Review
  2. ↑ Olympiad poet Jennifer Wong (in Chinese), iMoney (Hong Kong Economic Times), 12 May 2012
  3. ↑ Summer Cicadas, South China Morning Post, 15 October 2006
  4. ↑ Oxford poet who loves creativity (in Chinese), Hong Kong Economic Times, 2 April 2007
  5. ↑ Jennifer Wong - Crackdown, Morning Star, 25 July 2012
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kate Kilalea, Agnes Lehoczky and Jennifer Wong at Poetry Parnassus, New Writing, 6 July 2012
  7. ↑ Goldfish, by Jennifer Wong, South China Morning Post, 8 September 2013
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Books, Time Out Hong Kong, 3–16 July 2013, p. 68
  9. ↑ Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013 Commend Outstanding Artists and Organisations, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, 26 April 2014
  10. ↑ Poem of the month: Reimagined Garden (20), Tate Etc., Autumn 2012
  11. ↑ Former AO and local female poet to take part in London Olympics alongside Nobel prizewinner (in Chinese), Apple Daily, 1 April 2012
  12. ↑ Gobbling Down Auspicious Chinese Dishes at New Year, Asia Literary Review
  13. ↑ 香港國際文學節 2012 (in Chinese), British Council
  14. ↑ Books Aren't Boring, South China Morning Post, 10 March 2014