Prof. Dr. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is a Hong Kong-born scholar, poet, translator, and editor. She is the editor-in-chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, a significant platform for the study and amplification of Asian voices, and co-editor of Hong Kong Studies, the only peer-reviewed journal focused on Hong Kong. She also serves as English Editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine and Translation Editor of The Shanghai Literary Review. A former tenured Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, her academic work includes the monograph Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (2019) and articles on Hong Kong literature and culture. Tammy has co-edited anthologies such as Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz (2014), Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema from Singapore and Hong Kong (2017), and Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place (2017). Her poetry collections include Hula Hooping (2015), which won the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts, Too Too Too Too (2018), and If I Do Not Reply (2024). In 2023, she was writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.