Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow; Bye Fellow
English
Bye fellow
Degrees
BA (Swarthmore), MA (RHUL), MPhil (Oxford), PhD (RHUL)
Awards & Prizes
- Winner of the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry, a 2019 Eric Gregory Award (Society of Authors) and the 2018 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (The Poetry Society).
- Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dylan Thomas Prize, the 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the 2020 Jhalak Prize, the 2020 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award.
Research Interests
Poetry, contemporary fiction, the lyric essay, literature in translation
Biography
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Chan’s second collection, Bright Fear, was published by Faber in 2023.
Chan co-edited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan. Chan is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and is the recipient of the 2023-24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. In 2023, Chan served as a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize.
Publications
Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019); Bright Fear (Faber, 2023)