Ditmas Lit

Belle Ling was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her poetry manuscripts were respectively shortlisted for the HKU International Poetry Prize, highly commended for the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for the First Book Poetry Prize of Puncher and Wattmann. Her poem, “63 Temple Street, Mong Kok,” was a co-winner in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize held by the Australian Book Review. Her other poem, “That Space,” won a second place in the ESL category of the International Poetry Competition organized by the Oxford Brookes University. Her poems can be found in Chicago Quarterly Review, World Literature Today, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Yuan Yang, Meanjin, Overland, Mascara Literary Review, and more. She is now working as a creative strategist at the HKU Guild. Belle Ling will be participating in the reading remotely.

Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a communist poet, educator,…