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 work has appeared in journals and anthologies both domestically (Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, Meanjin, Cordite Poetry Review, Voiceworks, Verge) and internationally (Asian American Writers’ Workshop, The Margins, Juked). He is the recipient of the 2023 Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, and has been a finalist for awards from Frontier Poetry and Palette Poetry. He is currently an MFA candidate at Cornell University, where he served as an editor for EPOCH journal, and is currently a teaching associate and university fellow.