Born and grew up in Hong Kong and dividing her time between Surrey, Oxford and Hong Kong, Jennifer Wong (she/her) is a published poet and writer.
Wong is the author of several poetry collections including Light Year (Nine Arches Press, 2026), a PBS recommendation and Letters Home (Nine Arches Press, 2020), a PBS Wild Card Choice.
Previous amphlets and books include Time Difference (a Verve pamphlet) and Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (a Bitter Melon Poetry pamphlet), Goldfish (Chameleon Press) and Summer Cicadas (Chameleon Press). Her poems have been included in journals such as Poetry London, Magma Poetry, and anthologies by Candlestick Press and Poetry Pharmacy.
She is the author of the monograph Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere: Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2023), a critical-creative academic volume that looks at the multiple facets of home through the lens of migration, race and cultural heritage, focused on contemporary poets from the Anglophone Chinese diaspora.
She has co-edited literary anthologies on transnational Chinese/Asian literature, including Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press, 2023) with Jason EH Lee and Tim Tim Cheng. With Eddie Tay, she co-edited State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring letters and correspondences between selected international poets of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritage.
She is an editor of Woman, Mapped, a new Rebecca Swift Foundation women’s poetry anthology, published by Fly on the Wall Press in 2026.
Wong studied English at Oxford University and earned an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. She has a PhD in Poetry and Poetics from Oxford Brookes University where she taught part-time as an associate lecturer in creative writing.
She has held several writer residencies and visiting fellowships including a Wasafiri writer-in-residence and a visiting fellow at Oxford centre for humanities (TORCH), as well as for the Royal College of Nursing Libraries London in 2026.
She has also participated in literary festivals and led writing workshops, with work experience in community and education sector, having worked or led creative writing workshops and courses at City Lit, Arvon, Fusion Arts Oxford and King’s College Guildford.
Jennifer is a visiting lecturer for the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong in 2026. She is a creative writing tutor for Poetry School and Stanford exchange students in Oxford.
Her stories have been featured in Sinetheta, HongKongers and Under the Radar.
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