About the Author

New Zealand poet Diana Bridge has published five books of poetry with Auckland University Press. In 2015 she won the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. She was presented with the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry in 2010, for her distinguished contribution to New Zealand Poetry. Her essay "An attachment to China"uwon the Landfall Essay Competition for 2014. She has a PhD in Chinese classical poetry from the Australian National University, has studied and researched Chinese language, literature and art history and early Indian art history, and is the first foreigner to have taught in the Chinese department at Hong Kong University.