May, Wong: - Wong May was born in China\'s wartime capital, Chongqing, in 1944.
She paints under the name Ittrium Coey, and has exhibited her work in Dublin & Grenoble..
Wong May currently lives in Dublin.
In 2022, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize.
Her fourth book of poems, PICASSO\'S TEARS (Poems 1978- 2013), was published by Octopus Books.
Soon after, she left the USA for Europe.
Enright; and from 1966 to 1968 she was at the Iowa Writers\' Workshop.
She was brought up in Singapore by her mother, a classical Chinese poet; studied English Literature at the University of Singapore with the poet D.
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May, Wong: - Wong May was born in China\'s wartime capital, Chongqing, in 1944