Jennifer Wong

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Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.[1]

Biography

An alumni of the Diocesan Girls' School,[2] Wong studied English literature at the University of Oxford.[3] Between 2001 and 2005 she worked for the Hong Kong government as an administration officer, and later as 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,[3] in 2006.[6] Her work has also been featured in Tate Etc., the Frogmore Papers, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and Aesthetica.[1][7]

Currently living in London,[1] Wong represented Hong Kong at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad held in the city,[8][9] and was a speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c Jennifer Wong, UCity Review
  2. ^ Olympiad poet Jennifer Wong (in Chinese), iMoney (Hong Kong Economic Times), 12 May 2012
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Kate Kilalea, Agnes Lehoczky and Jennifer Wong at Poetry Parnassus, New Writing, 6 July 2012
  7. ^ Poem of the month: Reimagined Garden, Tate Etc., Autumn 2012
  8. ^ Former AO and local female poet to take part in London Olympics alongside Nobel prizewinner (in Chinese), Apple Daily, 1 April 2012
  9. ^ Gobbling Down Auspicious Chinese Dishes at New Year, Asia Literary Review
  10. ^ 香港國際文學節 2012 (in Chinese), British Council