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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 was 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 volume Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (Palgrave, 2019) and she has published widely on Hong Kong literature and culture. Her 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.