Derek Chan is a writer and educator from Melbourne, Australia. He is an MFA graduate of Cornell University, where he was a university fellow, an editor of EPOCH journal, and a two-time recipient of the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize. Additionally, he holds a First-Class Honors in Literary Studies and Psychology from Monash University, where he received the Arthur Brown Thesis Prize. He is currently a lecturer at Cornell University, where he teaches creative writing and academic composition. 

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Best of Australian Poems, Oxford Poetry, The Margins, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2024 Forward Prize in the Best Single Written Poem category, the 2025 Tin House Residency, and he has been nominated for Best New Poets. He has also received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, and has been recognized for awards by Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, and Palette Poetry.