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Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic. Their first poetry collection, Flèche, won the 2019 Costa Book Award in the Poetry category. Chan is also a 2019 recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for a collection by poets under the age of 30. Chan is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and was guest co-editor of The Poetry Review for Spring 2020.

Mary Jean Chan
Chan at book reading in 2022
Born	1990 (age 31–32)[1] Hong Kong
Occupation	Poet, lecturer, editor, critic
Education	Royal Holloway University of Oxford Swarthmore College
Genre	Poetry
Notable works	Flèche
Notable awards	Costa Book Awards Eric Gregory Award
Website
www.maryjeanchan.com

Biography

Mary Jean Chan was born in 1990 and was raised in Hong Kong.[1] They graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 2012 with a BA in Political Science, minoring in English Literature. Chan furthered their studies at the University of Oxford where they obtained an MPhil in 2015 in International Development. Chan also completed an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.[2][3]

In 2018, Chan's pamphlet, A Hurry of English, was published by ignitionpress and was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice.[4] Chan's debut poetry collection Flèche was published by Faber & Faber (2019). It was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation.[5] The book won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2019.[6]

In 2019, Chan was named as one of Jackie Kay's 10 Best BAME Writers in Britain, with Kay describing Chan's poetry as "psychologically astute and culturally complex."[7]

Chan is a Ledbury Poetry Critic.[8] Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University[9] and serves as a supervisor on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.

Awards

• 2021 Lambda Literary Awards (Finalist for Flèche)
• 2020 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize (Shortlisted for Flèche)
• 2020 Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour (Shortlisted for Flèche)
• 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize (Shortlisted for Flèche)
• 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize (Shortlisted for Flèche)[10]
• 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry, Flèche[6]
• 2019 Eric Gregory Award, A Hurry Of English[11]
• 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Shortlisted for 'The Window')[3]
• 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Award[12]
• 2017 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Shortlisted for '//')[13]
• 2017 Poetry Society Anne Born Prize[14]
• 2017 National Poetry Competition (Second Place), 'The Window'[1]
• 2016 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, 'Wet Nurse'[15]

Bibliography

• 100 Queer Poems (Vintage Books, 2022)
• Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019)
• A Hurry of English (ignitionpress, 2018)

External links

• Official website

References

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