Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is a Hong Kong-born poet, translator, scholar, and former tenured professor of English literature. She is the editor-in-chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal , the first English editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine , and a founding co-editor of Hong Kong Studies , currently the only peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to research on Hong Kong affairs. Tammy’s first collection of poetry is Hula Hooping (Chameleon, 2015), for which she won the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her first short story collection Her Name Upon the Strand (Delere Press), her second poetry collection Too Too Too Too (Math Paper Press), and chapbook An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong (Musical Stone) were published in 2018. She is also the author of the academic book Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (Palgrave, 2019) and she has published widely on Hong Kong literature and culture. Over the years, Tammy has edited or co-edited a number of literary collections having a strong focus on Hong Kong, including 21/21 Anthology: Poetry from Hong Kong (Musical Stone, 2022), Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema from Singapore and Hong Kong (Landmark Books, 2017), Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press, 2016), and Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz (Chameleon Press, 2014). She also guest-edited an e-chapbook of Hong Kong poetry published by Cordite Publishing ( 2020 ), a Hong Kong Feature for World Literature Today , the journal’s first annual city issue (Spring 2019), and the Hong Kong special issue of Svenska PEN’s PEN/Opp (2019). In addition to her writing, Tammy is a translator and her literary translations have appeared in World Literature Today , Chinese Literature Today , Pathlight: New Chinese Writin g, among other publications, and in the 2015, 2017, and 2019 anthologies published by International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong. Her own poems have been translated into Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese. She was a Fellow of the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa in 2023.