Post by NZBC on Sept 9, 2008 20:35:48 GMT 12
Alison Wong - China downunder
Alison Wong's great grandparents came to New Zealand from China in the late 19th century. She grew up in Hawke's Bay and, apart from several years in China, has spent most of her adult life in the Wellington region. She was the 2002 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University, and her collection, Cup, was a finalist for the Best First Book for Poetry at the 2007 Montana Book Awards. Her poetry was selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2007 and 2006, and her first novel, As the Earth Turns, will be published in 2009 by Penguin New Zealand and Picador Australia, UK and Hong Kong.
Renee Liang - China downunder
Renee Liang is a poet, playwright and fiction writer. She is an MC at Poetry Live and organises other events aimed at bringing the Auckland arts community closer together. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing and is working on her first novel. Her play Lantern was written and performed in 2008 and a short play, Mask, will be performed in two centres. Her work can be seen in various NZ literary journals and she has released two small poetry books, Chinglish and Cardiac Cycle. She is an occasional paediatrician. Renee's writing riffs on themes of cross-cultural heartache, family, love, loss and living in New Zealand.
Mo Zhi Hong - China downunder
Mo Zhi Hong was born in Singapore but grew up in Taiwan, China, Canada, the United States of America and New Zealand. During the dot-com boom of the 1990s he worked as a software developer in New York City, and later as an English teacher in north-east China, before recently returning to New Zealand. He is 35 years old. The Year of the Shanghai Shark, published this year, is his first novel.
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Gilbert Wong - China downunder
Gilbert Wong leads the communications team at the Human Rights Commission. He moonlights as a contributing writer and theatre reviewer for Metro where he was associate editor and the arts editor. Prior to Metro he worked as the arts and books editor, the travel editor and Weekend features editor at the New Zealand Herald. He has also worked for a range of newspapers and magazines here and overseas. His journalism has been recognised in New Zealand and Australia at the Qantas Media Awards and the Citigroup Awards. Earlier in his career he was selected for a Fulbright Journalism Programme that led to work on US newspapers and a research project on the impact of the Internet on newspapers. He was co-organiser of Fusion, the artists' exchange project between New Zealand Chinese and Hong Kong artists that was exhibited in the New Gallery Auckland and the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1996.
Alison Wong's great grandparents came to New Zealand from China in the late 19th century. She grew up in Hawke's Bay and, apart from several years in China, has spent most of her adult life in the Wellington region. She was the 2002 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University, and her collection, Cup, was a finalist for the Best First Book for Poetry at the 2007 Montana Book Awards. Her poetry was selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2007 and 2006, and her first novel, As the Earth Turns, will be published in 2009 by Penguin New Zealand and Picador Australia, UK and Hong Kong.
Renee Liang - China downunder
Renee Liang is a poet, playwright and fiction writer. She is an MC at Poetry Live and organises other events aimed at bringing the Auckland arts community closer together. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing and is working on her first novel. Her play Lantern was written and performed in 2008 and a short play, Mask, will be performed in two centres. Her work can be seen in various NZ literary journals and she has released two small poetry books, Chinglish and Cardiac Cycle. She is an occasional paediatrician. Renee's writing riffs on themes of cross-cultural heartache, family, love, loss and living in New Zealand.
Mo Zhi Hong - China downunder
Mo Zhi Hong was born in Singapore but grew up in Taiwan, China, Canada, the United States of America and New Zealand. During the dot-com boom of the 1990s he worked as a software developer in New York City, and later as an English teacher in north-east China, before recently returning to New Zealand. He is 35 years old. The Year of the Shanghai Shark, published this year, is his first novel.
See details of the programme session.
Gilbert Wong - China downunder
Gilbert Wong leads the communications team at the Human Rights Commission. He moonlights as a contributing writer and theatre reviewer for Metro where he was associate editor and the arts editor. Prior to Metro he worked as the arts and books editor, the travel editor and Weekend features editor at the New Zealand Herald. He has also worked for a range of newspapers and magazines here and overseas. His journalism has been recognised in New Zealand and Australia at the Qantas Media Awards and the Citigroup Awards. Earlier in his career he was selected for a Fulbright Journalism Programme that led to work on US newspapers and a research project on the impact of the Internet on newspapers. He was co-organiser of Fusion, the artists' exchange project between New Zealand Chinese and Hong Kong artists that was exhibited in the New Gallery Auckland and the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1996.