An evening with David Russomano and Jennifer Wong

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Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Room JG0003, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
Price: free
Speaker(s): David Russomano and Jennifer Wong

David Russamano is a graduate of the MA course in Creative Writing at Kingston University and winner of the Faber and Faber Prize. His poetry has appeared in a number of publications and been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and included in the Sundress Publications 2012 Best of the Net Anthology and various print and online publications.

Jennifer Wong is a Hong Kong-born Chinese poet and translator. Her poems have appeared in Rialto, Peony Moon, And Other Poems, Eyewear, Morning Star, Frogmore Papers, Warwick Review, Orbis, TATE ETC, UCity Review, Cha, QLRS (Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore), One Night Stanzas, Iota as well as poetry anthologies including Lung Jazz: Young British Poets, World Record: An Anthology, Outloud Too, and Becoming Poets: The Asian English Experience. As a Swire scholar, she studied English at Oxford and received an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She was the writer-in-residence at Lingnan University in 2012, teaching creative writing to undergraduates, and has worked for a UK-based journal, Magma Poetry. She reviews regularly for Asian Review of Books and Magma Poetry.

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