Antony Huen is an academic and writer from Hong Kong.
As a literary critic, he won the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize and came second for the inaugural Women Poetry Prize, awarded by Women: A Cultural Review and judged by Sandeep Parmar with Mary Jean Chan. As a poet, he was shortlisted for the inaugural Poetry London Pamphlet Prize, judged by Jay Bernard.
At Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), he is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Culture and was selected for the President's Awards for Excellence in Inspirational Teaching in 2023. He has been working on the funded project Ekphrasis in Hong Kong Poetry in English: Late 1970s to Early 2020s (RGC, HKSAR, 2023-4).
Before joining HKMU, he lectured in the Department of English and English Language Teaching Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He has also taught at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), and the University of York.
He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham, and a PhD in English from the University of York, where he was a doctoral fellow at the Humanities Research Centre.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5753-1641
Work profile (University): hkmu.edu.hk/antonyhuen
Work profile (Department): hkmu.edu.hk/hlt/antonyhuen
Linktree: linktr.ee/antonyhuen
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Poet's biography (99 words): Antony Huen was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has been published in the UK (The Dark Horse, Poetry Wales and PN Review) and Asia (Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and The Shanghai Literary Review). His poems can also be found in anthologies including Voice & Verse 21/21 Anthology and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press). He was shortlisted for the inaugural Poetry London Pamphlet Prize. As a critic, he won the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize and came second for the inaugural essay prize of Women: A Cultural Review.
Poet's biography (50 words): Antony Huen was born and raised in Hong Kong. He was shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize and published in Poetry Wales and PN Review. As a critic, he won the 2021 Wasafiri Essay Prize and came second for the inaugural essay prize of Women: A Cultural Review.
📍 Fringe Club, Central, Hong Kong | 📅 12 Mar 2023
An essay in Writing Chinese (2.1), December 2023 (with Felix Chow)
An essay in Women: A Cultural Review, (33.4), March 2023
An essay in PN Review (49.3), March 2023
(via ProQuest)
An essay in Wasafiri (37.1), February 2022
Bauhinia Blakeana
A poem in Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, May 2023
Four poems in PN Review (9.2), December 2022
(via ProQuest)
Brain Sea
A poem in Poetry Wales (57.2), December 2021
Self-Portrait as a Steamed Whole Fish
A poem in The Dark Horse (43), July 2021
Hong Kong, Art and Poetry: Four Poets in Dialogue (2024)
Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong
Voyages and Dreams: Incense in the Water (2023)
Eaton Hotel, Hong Kong
One City One Book Hong Kong: Ekphrasis City Poetics (2020)
Bleak House Books, Hong Kong
(see the full recording here)
Cúirt International Festival of Literature (2017)
Nuns Island Theatre, Galway
ENGLA323F European Literature in English Translation
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Penelope with the Suitorsby Pintoricchio
fresco, detached and mounted on canvas, circa 1509
NG 911© The National Gallery, London
ENGE5240 Creative Writing
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kit's Writing Lessonby Robert Braithwaite Martineau
oil paint on canvas, 1852T00011© Tate Images
WRIT4007 The Art of Creating Stories: Writing and Appreciation
Hong Kong Baptist University
A Lady Reading
by Gwen John
oil paint on canvas, 1909-11
N03174© Tate Images
ENG00023C Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
The University of York
Charlie Chaplin
by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1926
NPG D2662© National Portrait Gallery, London
📍HKMU, Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong | 📅 8 April 2024
