Jennifer Lee Tsai was born in Bebington and grew up in Liverpool. Her doctoral research in Creative Writing is fully funded by the AHRC and critically focuses on questions of race, gender and embodiment in contemporary experimental poetry and so-called French feminist theory. This, in turn, informs the development of new creative work. Previous to, and alongside her studies, Jennifer worked as a teacher of English as a Foreign/Second Language in universities and colleges for many years in the UK and abroad. She is a fellow of The Complete Works poetry programme for diversity and innovation and a Ledbury Poetry Critic. Her creative and critical work is widely published in numerous magazines and journals including Magma, Oxford Poetry, The Rialto, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Versopolis Review, The White Review, Wild Court as well as in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation (2017). Jennifer’s debut poetry pamphlet is Kismet (ignitionpress, 2019). She is the winner of a Northern Writers Award for Poetry 2020.
