Born and educated in Hong Kong, Kit Fan now lives in York. He completed a PhD in English at the University of York. His poems are widely published in UK literary magazines such as Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, and The London Magazine. He won a Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation in 2006 and the inaugural HKU Poetry Prize in 2010. His first book of poems Paper Scissors Stone is published by Hong Kong University Press in March 2011.