Mary Jean Chan
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber (2019) and Faber USA (2020). 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, the Jhalak Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize.
In 2021, Flèche was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Chan won the 2018 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice, receiving an Eric Gregory Award in 2019. In Spring 2020, Chan was guest co-editor with Will Harris at The Poetry Review. A Ledbury Poetry Critic, Chan regularly writes for The Guardian Review. They are a Rathbones Folio Prize Academy member and a judge for the 2022 Jhalak Prize. Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and also serves as a supervisor on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Born and raised in Hong Kong, they currently live in Oxford.
