A recent graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Oxford, Mary Jean Chan is passionate about the intersection between politics and poetry, as well as other forms of literary expression. Her work has been published in journals and anthologies such as The Cadaverine, The Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Oxford Cherwell, The Charnel House and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights. A former TEDx speaker, Chan was twice selected as one of Oxford's emerging poetic voices by the Oxford University Poetry Society. She is currently an MA candidate in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. [Whither Hong Kong?]