Born and raised in Hong Kong, Tim Tim Cheng is the author of the pamphlet Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023), which was one of Poetry Society Books of the Year and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize 2024. Her collection The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She co-edited Where Else: An International Poetry Anthology (VERVE, 2023). Her poems are published or anthologised in POETRY, The Rialto, Poetry London, Our Time Is A Garden, and elsewhere. She appeared in StAnza Festival, Hidden Door festival, Singapore Writers Festival, and BBC Scotland.
Based in Glasgow, she was an Ignite Fellow with Scottish Book Trust and a mentee on the Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship Scheme. She graduated from the MSc in Creative Writing (Poetry) at The University of Edinburgh. She was also a member of Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective 2022/23 and a WrICE fellow with RMIT University. She often collaborates with musicians and translates between English and Chinese. She also curates literary events with Red Bean Poetry and co-hosts a Cantonese podcast on Anglophone poetry.
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