Derek Chan is a writer and educator from Melbourne, Australia. He holds an MFA from Cornell University, where he was a university fellow, an editor of EPOCH journal, and a two-time recipient of the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize. He also earned First-Class Honours 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, Australian Book Review, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, the Forward Prize (Best Single Written Poem), and has been recognized with awards and nominations from The Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, Best New Poets, and Palette Poetry. He has also received residency fellowships and support from institutions such as the Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).