Mary Jean Chan

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    • About

       

      Mary Jean Chan is a poet and editor from Hong Kong. Her debut collection is forthcoming from Faber & Faber (July 2019).

       

      Mary Jean's poetry has appeared in The 2018 Forward Book of Poetry, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Ambit Magazine, The White Review (forthcoming), Smoke Magazine (forthcoming), Ash Magazine (forthcoming), The Rialto, The London Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Callaloo Journal, The Asian American Writers' Workshop, Magma, The Scores, Tongue and English: Journal of the English Association, and is forthcoming from anthologies including The Best New British and Irish Poetry 2018, Carcanet New Poetries VII, Wretched Strangers: Transnational Poetries and The Dizziness of Freedom: A Poetry Anthology on Mental Health. A Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic, Mary Jean's reviews are published in or forthcoming from The Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, The Poetry School and the Hong Kong Review of Books.

       

      A graduate of Swarthmore College, the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, Mary Jean served as Vice-President of the Oxford University Poetry Society (2014-2015). She received the 2015 University of London MA Creative Writing Prize, along with fellowships from VONA and Callaloo, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing (Poetry) and Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her article on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric was published in The Journal of American Studies (2018).

       

      She is the winner of the 2017 Anne Born Prize, the 2017 Postcolonial Studies Association/Journal of Postcolonial Writing Postgraduate Essay Prize, the 2017 Psychoanalysis and Poetry Competition, the 2017 Poetry Society Members' Poetry Competition and the 2016 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition (ESL). Mary Jean came Second in the 2017 National Poetry Competition, and placed Third in the 2016 Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry. She has been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, the 2016 London Magazine Poetry Prize and the 2016 Resurgence Poetry Prize (Commended).

       

      Mary Jean's debut pamphlet A Hurry of English is published by ignitionpress, and was recently selected as the 2018 Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice. She lives in London, and is currently an editor of Oxford Poetry.

    • Poems

      Online Publications

       

      "what my mother (a poet) might say" 

      The Poetry Review

       

      "Wet Nurse" 

      The Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, Winner (ESL), 2016

       

      "They Would Have All That" 

      The London Magazine

       

      "At the Castro" 

      Bare Fiction Magazine

       

      "Practice"

      Weekly Poem, Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre

    • Articles & Essays

      Selected Publications

      Towards a Poetics of Racial Trauma:

      Lyric Hybridity in Claudia Rankine's Citizen

      The Journal of American Studies (2018)

      Meeting Point: An Essay

      Wild Court, the English Department of

      King's College London (2017)

      What Is It That You Love? 

      Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora

      Arts and Letters (2016)

    • TeD tALK

      TEDxSwarthmore

      31 March 2012

      What Makes a Good Society?

    • Appearances

      Dates

      2018

       

      24 Jan: The Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics, University of Birmingham

      8 Feb: Poetry London: Spring 2018 Readings, Kings Place, London

      15 Feb: Waterstones (Tottenham Court Road) with the Lodestone Poets, London

      22 Feb: International Mother Languages Day, Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester

      27 Feb: Race and Equality: An Evening of Poetry and Film, King's College London

      7 Mar: ignitionpress Pamphlet Launch, The Poetry Cafe, London

      8 Mar: ignitionpress Pamphlet Launch, Society Cafe, Oxford

      25 Mar: ignitionpress Pamphlet Launch, The Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford

      11 Apr: ignitionpress Pamphlet Launch, University of St Andrews

      12 Apr: ignitionpress Pamphlet Launch, Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh

      23 Apr: Celebration of Adrienne Rich with Poet in the City, Wilton's Music Hall, London

      24 Apr: TOAST Poets with Joe Dunthorne and Remi Graves, The Harrison, London

      30 Apr: Carcanet New Poetries VII Launch, The London Review Bookshop, London

      2 May: An Evening of Faber Poets with Lavinia Greenlaw, Sophie Collins, Rachael Allen, Hannah Sullivan & Ishion Hutchinson, Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell St, London

      4 May: Carcanet New Poetries VII Launch, The Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford

      28 May: Reading with Amy Key, Claudine Toutoungi & Eleni Cay, the Troubadour, London

      30 May: Reading with Will Harris, Theo Kwek & Jennifer Tsai, 11 Bedford Square, London

      18 June: Reading at Bradfield College, Bradfield, Berkshire

      30 June: Poetry and Psychoanalysis Conference, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, London

      5-8 July: The Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury

      25 July: The Poetry Book Society Summer Showcase, Southbank Centre, London

      4 Oct: National Poetry Day Live, Southbank Centre, London

      13 Oct: Contemporary Chinese Poets at the Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester

      10 Nov: The Woodstock Poetry Festival, Oxford

       

      2017

       

      Dec: Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

      Nov: Hong Kong International Literary Festival, HK

      Oct: Oxford Poetry Library Fundraiser, Oxford

      Oct: Poets and Publishers, Poetry Swindon Festival, Swindon

      Sept: The 2017 Forward Prizes for Poetry​, Royal Festival Hall, London

      July: Transatlantic Poetry, a global, live-streamed event

      July: Poem-a-Thon, The Poetry Cafe, London

      July: English Association Literary Salon with Helen Mort, Newcastle

      July: English Shared Futures Conference, Newcastle Civic Center, Newcastle

      June: Poetry and Psychoanalysis Conference, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London

      May: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000 Conference, the University of Oxford

      May: Free Verse: The Poetry Magazine Fair, The Betsey Trotwood, London

      May: Creating China: Writing Across Genres, China Exchange, London

      Apr: The Poetry Review Spring Issue Launch, House of Illustration Gallery, London

      Apr: Bare Fiction Magazine Launch, Waterstones, Birmingham

      Mar: Poetics of Home Conference, The Institute of English Studies, London

      Feb: An Evening with Sarah Howe, Hannah Lowe & Jennifer Wong, Goodenough College, London

      Jan: Keats Celebration on the Eve of St. Agnes, Guildhall Art Gallery, London

    • Press & Media

       

      PRINT

       

      Forward Arts Foundation

      Young Poets Network

      Swarthmore College

      The Pool (UK)

      RHUL English

      Spread the Word

      Poetry Book Society

      Wilton's Music Hall

       

      AUDIO

       

      BBC Radio London

      The Poetry Pharmacy

      Lunar Poetry Podcast

      Photo: Best Single Poem Shortlist

      © Forward Prizes 2017

    • Contact

      Twitter: @maryjean_chan

      Agent: Emma Paterson

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