Overview
Derek Chan is a writer and educator from Melbourne, Australia. He is an MFA graduate of Cornell University, where he was a university fellow, an editor of EPOCH journal, and a two-time recipient of the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize. Additionally, he holds a First-Class Honours in Literary Studies from Monash University, where he received the Arthur Brown Thesis Prize. His work has appeared in Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, Oxford Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, The Margins, Wildness, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and has been short-listed for awards by the Forward Prize, Frontier Poetry, and Palette Poetry. He is currently a lecturer at Cornell University, where he teaches creative writing and academic composition.