Jennifer Wong

Jennifer Wong is a writer and poet from Hong Kong.

An alumnus of the Diocesan Girls' School, Wong studied English literature at University College, Oxford. 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.

She gained an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and later taught poetry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as poet-in-residence at Lingnan University. She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006, which focused on her time in England. In 2013 she published her second collection, Goldfish, which focused more on Hong Kong.

In 2014, she received the Hong Kong Young Artist Award (Literary Arts) presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her work has also been featured in Tate Etc., the Frogmore Papers, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Aesthetica and Prairie Schooner.

Currently living in London, Wong represented Hong Kong at the 2012 Cultural Olympiad held in the city, and was a speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and the Hong Kong Young Readers Festival in 2014.