Mary Jean Chan

Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic. Their first poetry collection Flèche won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted in 2020 for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. In 2021, Flèche was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Chan’s second collection, Bright Fear, is forthcoming from Faber in 2023. Chan recently co-edited 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan. Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and lives in Oxford.