ABOUT

Tim Tim Cheng is a poet from Hong Kong. Her full collection The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023), shortlisted for The Kavya Prize 2024, was one of The Poetry Society's Books of the Year.
 

She is a co-editor of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (VERVE, 2023). Her poems appear in The Rialto, POETRY, Poetry London, Magma, among others. She has performed for the likes of BBC Scotland, London Literature Festival, Singapore Writers Festival, and National Poetry Library. She has run writing workshops in collaboration with The University of Leeds, StAnza Festival, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Cambridge.

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She is a WrICE fellow (awarded by RMIT University), an Ignite fellow (Scottish Book Trust), a member of Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective 2022/23, and a mentee under the Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship scheme. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from The University of Edinburgh, and a double-bachelor in English and Teaching from the Hong Kong Baptist University.

With Arts Council England's support, she is developing a poetry film. She also edits, translates, co-hosts 英詩乞衣, a Cantonese Podcast on Anglophone poetry, and writes lyrics. 

She is available for commissions, literary translation, editing services, event programming, and workshop facilitation. Contact here. 

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Photo Credit: Alan Leung