Melita Hume Poetry Prize Shortlist: #2 JASON ENG HUN LEE

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Jason Eng Hun Lee, MHPP Shorlisted
Jason Eng Hun Lee was born in the UK in 1984. He is a co-ordinator of the OutLoud and Joyce is Not Here poetry groups in Hong Kong and has featured regularly in the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. He has published poems and reviews in the U.K., Singapore and Hong Kong, was nominated by Cha for a Pushcart Prize and his first collection was a finalist for the inaugural HKU Poetry Prize in 2010. He has an English MA from Leeds and is due to complete a doctoral thesis at The University of Hong Kong on contemporary twenty-first century literature.

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