Discipline: Literature

Wong May

Discipline: Literature
Region: Dublin, IRELAND
MacDowell Fellowships: 1968, 1969
More: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wong-may
Wong May is a poet who grew up in Singapore, studied and worked in the United States, and now lives in Ireland. A first book of poetry, A Bad Girl's Book of Animals, was published by Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich in 1969. While at MacDowell in 1969, Wong May met Hilda Morley. Stylistically their poetry is closely associated. Wong May's next book, Reports, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, came out in 1972. Her Wannsee Poems, written during a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship in Berlin, were translated as Wannsee Gedichte by Nicolas Born. In 2014 Picasso's Tears, her fourth book of poems including work from 1978-2013, was published by Octopus Books.