Nicholas Wong

Nicholas Wong Yu Bon (; born 3 February) is a Hong Kong poet and translator. He is the author of Cities of Sameness, Crevasse (2015) and Besiege Me (2021).

Early life and education Wong was born on 3 February in Hong Kong, where he was also raised. He received a Master of Fine Arts from the City University of Hong Kong.

Career Wong has published three book-length poetry collections: Cities of Sameness (2012), Crevasse (2015), and Besiege Me (2021). In addition to poetry and translations, Wong founded Writing-Plus, an online creative writing pedagogy platform in Hong Kong. Wong also teaches with the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education.

Wong's debut poetry collection, Cities of Sameness, was published with Desperanto in 2012. The poems in the collection "challenge ideals, assumptions and narratives about love, sexuality and human life, by urging the reader to observe and confront the politics of sameness and difference, particularly how they intersect in subjective perception and objective material reality". In the collection, "Wong writes of bodies and antibodies, of Hong Kong and the Queen of England, of sexual awakenings, of race, of desire, of what we might see and know through the body, of politics as well as the erotic, of mourning and loss." A The Kenyon Review writer highlighted recurring ideas, including the "notion of the interior world opening outward, as though on display", as well as the concept of "the crevasse created in the body by illnesses—societal, medical, emotional".

Wong's his third poetry collection, Besiege Me, was published with Noemi Press in 2021. According to Publishers Weekly, "Wong's poems address queer and urban experience while also dissecting the political and economic factors that shape them, engaging with the history of Hong Kong, the speaker's often unspoken sexual orientation, and generational gaps".

Personal life Wong is queer. 2022 Besiege Me Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry Finalist Books