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A close-up portrait of a woman with her eyes closed, resting her head on someone\'s shoulder with city lights blurred in the background.

Tim Tim Cheng

Tim Tim Cheng is a poet and a teacher from Hong Kong, currently based between London and Edinburgh. Her pamphlet Tapping at Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023) explores girlhood, multilingualism, and psycho-geography. Her poems are published or anthologised in POETRY, The Rialto, Ambit, Our Time is a Garden, and elsewhere. Her latest appearances include the Hidden Door Festival, Singapore Writers Festival and BBC Scotland. She is a WrICE fellow and a mentee under the Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship scheme. She also edits, translates between Chinese and English, and writes lyrics. Her full collection, My Bloody Galentines, is forthcoming in 2024. It navigates daughterhood, class, ecology, tattooing and music.