PROFILE

Author of several poetry collections including Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon), Letters Home (Nine Arches Press) and Time Difference (Verve Poetry Press) and Light Year (forthcoming), Wong explores the notions and contradictions of home, as well as women as artists. She is also a fiction writer and her stories have appeared in Under the Radar and Sinetheta.

Wong has an English degree from Oxford, an MA in creative writing from University of East Anglia and earned a creative writing PhD from Oxford Brookes University. She has taught in higher education institutions including working as an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, a visiting fellow at Oxford TORCH and a creative writing tutor at Stanford exchange programme in Oxford. She has taught creative writing at Poetry School, Arvon and City Lit in the UK, has worked as writer-in-residence with Wasafiri and the Lingnan University of Hong Kong. She is an associate editor of Wasafiri, an international literary magazine and advisor for The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. She also writes book reviews for a number of publications and edits anthologies. Her essays and poems have also been included in literary anthologies such as Why I Write: Essays on Becoming a Poet (Nine Arches Press) edited by Ian Humphreys, Ten Poems About Schools (Candlestick Press) and Becoming a Poet (Poetry Pharmacy), as well as in academic edited volumes.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Creative writing practices and education
• The contradictions of home
• The notion of elsewhere in contemporary migrant literature
• Contemporary women’s writing / literature; women as artists

BOOKS

Light Year (Nine Arches Press)

Time Difference (Verve Poetry Press)

Letters Home (Nine Arches Press)

Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon)

Goldfish (Chameleon Press)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Wong, J. (2023). ‘Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency; Imperium: Chen Chen Bloodaxe Books, Hexham 2022’,. Wasafiri, 38(4), 105–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2023.2238418

Wong, J. (2022). ‘Rediscovering Self, Race, and Class Through Cultural Translation: An Interview with Will Harris’. Wasafiri, 37(3), 44–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2022.2067148

Wong, J. (2017). ‘An Interview with Agnes Lam’. Wasafiri, 32(1), 11–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2017.1252092

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

British Chinese Studies Network conference, 16 July 2025

‘Multilingual Chinese Writers: from creative tension to craft’ - English Shared Futures Conference 2025, The University of York, 3 July 2025

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Associate Fellow, Advanced HE, UK

COURSES TAUGHT

• CLIT7029 Special Topics in Creative Writing

*Photo credit: Tereza Červeňová