Laura Jane Lee is a poet and copywriter from Hong Kong, currently based in Singapore. Under her former name, she founded KongPoWriMo and Subtle Asian Poetry Collective, and is the winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize. Her work has been awarded in various international competitions such as the Proverse Poetry Prize, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, Acumen, Out-Spoken Poetry Prize and Poetry London Mentorship Scheme. She has also been published in journals and newspapers locally and internationally, such as Cherwell, ORB, Cha, HKFP, HK01 and The Mekong Review. She was formerly a Writer-In-Residence at BooksActually. Her pamphlets include “chengyu: chinoiserie” (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2020) published under her former name, and the forthcoming “flinch & air” (Out-Spoken Press, 2021).
