Spring 2023 seminar: M.F.A. candidate, creative writing
Derek Chan is a writer and educator from Melbourne, Australia. He holds a First Class Honours in Literary Studies from Monash University, where he received the Arthur Brown Thesis Prize. His writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin, The Margins, Juked, and elsewhere. Chan has been a finalist for awards by Frontier Poetry and Palette Poetry. He is currently an M.F.A. candidate at Cornell University, where he is an Editorial Associate for EPOCH and a university fellow.