Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic whose debut poetry collection, Flèche (Faber, 2019), won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry.

Mary Jean Chan was born in 1990 and was raised in Hong Kong.

[1] Chan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 2012 with a BA in Political Science.

Chan obtained an MPhil from Oxford in International Development and also completed an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Chan served as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University from 2018 until 2023.