Kit Fan is a poet, novelist and critic born and educated in Hong Kong before moving to the UK at 21. His first poetry collection, PAPER SCISSORS STONE (2011), won the Hong Kong University International PoetryPrize. AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE (2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times Books of the Year. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. He won theNorthern Writers Awards for Fiction and for Poetry, the Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and Poetry Magazine Editors’ Prize for Reviewing. His debut novel is DIAMOND HILL (2021). THE INK CLOUDREADER is his third poetry collection. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.