Jennifer Wong

Before moving to the UK, she also worked in the government and in corporate communications in the property sector.

She published her first collection of poems, Summer Cicadas in 2006,[3] which focused on her time in England.

[5] Her first UK collection, Letters Home[6][7] (Nine Arches Press 2020) has been named by Anthony Anaxagorou for the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.

Together with Eddie Tay, she co-edited the new anthology State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation[18] (Outspoken Press, 2023) featuring dialogues between poets of such heritage across continents.

She has taught creative writing at different institutions including Poetry School,[20] City Lit, Oxford Brookes University and Arvon.