Mary Jean Chan is a poet, editor and critic from Hong Kong. Her debut poetry collection, Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), was the winner of the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Chan has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes in the Best Single Poem category and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019. Chan is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University and lives in London.