Love & Lust -- Authors

Writers featured in Love & Lust
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Mike Ashton (Author of 'A Question of Importance') has been a Hong Kong resident for many years. Formerly, he was a university teacher and freelance journalist. In the past, Mike's fictional writing was exclusively in the film industry both locally and in the UK. His forays into literary work are fairly recent but include several former publications with the Hong Kong Writers' Circle.

Betty Bhownath (Author of 'Across the Tracks') is an English teacher with degrees in Literature, History and Education, as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching. She is also a trained counsellor and previously worked as a secondary school counsellor. Born and raised in South Africa, Betty immigrated to New Zealand eighteen years ago. She taught literature in South Africa, New Zealand and most recently Hong Kong, where she is currently a native English teacher. Betty is a part-time proofreader for World Vision Hong Kong. She is an aspiring writer and loves writing poetry and short stories.

John Biggs (Author of 'A Good Christian Girl'), after teaching in Hong Kong, fell like a falling leaf to his roots in Tasmania to write fiction, mostly Sino-Tasmanian fusion. He has published several short stories and three novels, two of which, The Girl in the Golden House (Pandanus Books 2003) and Disguises (Burville Books 2007), are located in Australia and Hong Kong, while Project Integrens (Sid Harta 2006) is set in outer space. Tin Dragons (forthcoming) locates Chinese tin miners in nineteenth-century Tasmania. John is a member of the Hong Kong Writers' Circle, the Tasmanian Writers' Centre and the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Website: www.johnbiggs.com.au.

Mike Bishop (Author of 'Switchback') was a senior detective in the UK police service in a previous life. In 1981 he moved to Hong Kong where he served with the Independent Commission Against Corruption until his retirement in 2006. Mike is also a writer and the author of numerous short stories and several books, both fiction and nonfiction. Since his retirement from public service, he spends his time writing, walking in the mountains of Lantau where he lives and wining and dining with friends.

Winnie Chau (Author of 'PC 00927') believes in the equivocation of words, although she doesn't yet have enough faith in her writing. She has been the editor and graphic designer for two annual journals, Nostalgia and Imperfection, for the English Society of the University of Hong Kong. After graduation, she would like to work in publishing, and more importantly, to keep on playing with words. Email: winnieinowhere@gmail.com.

Grace Chan (Author of 'One Yellow Plumeria') was raised on the tropical island of Guam and has lived in New York, Boston, Oxford and Hong Kong. She received her BA from Vassar College and MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grace writes fiction inspired by her life experiences – making Scooby- Doo hunts out of Guam power outages, getting chased out of restaurants in New York and trying to decipher her MIT classmate's notes taken in Greek (literally) to compensate for classes she forgot to attend. Grace has been working in communications and business development for multinational companies. She is currently writing her first book. Website: http://www.grace-chan.net.

Muhammad Cohen (Author of 'Bali Low'), a totally globalized native New Yorker, is the author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in 1997 about television news, love, betrayal, high finance and cheap lingerie. Once a US diplomat, Cohen’s fiction has also appeared in Asia Literary Review and The Bristol Journal. A former CNN and CNBC news producer, Cohen is currently a special correspondent for Macau Business and columnist for Asia Times Online. He's also an author of Lonely Planet's inaugural guide to Borneo and blogged Bali's 2007 Ubud Writers Festival for LonelyPlanet.com.

Michael Gibb (Author of 'Frozen Time') is a journalist based in Seoul. He has published several short stories through the Hong Kong Writers' Circle, and one of his stories will appear in Fifty-Fifty, an anthology of new writing about Hong Kong. Email: mjcgibb@yahoo.com.

Lawrence Gray (Author of 'The Pussy Man Blog')is a Hong Kong screenwriter with credits in UK and Singaporean TV drama. He won the PAWS Award for TV drama in 1995 and was runner-up in 1998. He won the Hong Kong Asia Film Finance Forum's prize for best Hong Kong film project in 2005 with his feature script Fat Englishmen, now in production in Hollywood. He runs Idol Films Ltd developing feature films and TV content for the international market. His short stories and articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications around Asia and the UK.

Ian Greenfield (Author of 'Sunev - The Three-legged Dog of Love') was born in England, but has been living in Hong Kong since 1998 and working as a mathematics teacher in King George V School. He has had two short stories published in Hong Kong Whodunnits – one of which was reprinted in an issue of Hong Kong Culture. He has written two as yet unpublished novels and is slowly building up a collection of short stories. (He has yet to actually encounter Sunev the three-legged dog of love or his compadre Sore the two-tongued dog of lust, but he did once see a cloud that looked a bit like Attila the Hun astride a horse.) Email: jester@kgv.edu.hk.

Cara Leek (Author of 'The Badminton Game') was born in the Bahamas and studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art. She subsequently lived and worked in Egypt, Italy, France, Japan and England working as an English teacher, cook, party planner and interior designer which has provided her with both inspiration and a wealth of experience for her writing. At the moment she is working on a novel which she aims to complete by the beginning of next year. Email: caraleek@netcomuk.co.uk.

Peter Gregoire (Author of 'The Aphrodite Club') has been living in Hong Kong since 2003. A lawyer by training and profession, in his spare time Peter finds writing the perfect antidote to the uncreative, dispassionate objectivity which the practice of law seems to demand of him. He has published a number of short stories and is currently working on a novel. Email: pgregoire123@yahoo.com.

Tammy Ho Lai-ming (Co-editor of Love & Lust, Co-author of 'Their Voices, Varied and Many'), aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-born and -based writer. She is the editor of HKU Writing: An Anthology (March, 2006), a co-editor of Word Salad Poetry Magazine and a co-founder of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Tammy frequently writes with Reid Mitchell. Visit her website and writer's profile for more details. Email: sighming@graduate.hku.hk.

Noble A Hughes (Author of 'Aida') immigrated to the United States in 1986. She's a California State University, Hayward graduate, and is working as a paralegal specialist for the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California. She enrolled in a few creative writing courses at the University of California-Extension which helped strengthen her creativity. To spice up the monotony of working life, Noble loves going to the opera, ballet and theatre. She also loves travelling abroad and downhill skiing in winter, but writing is her passion. She lives in Pinole, CA, with her multitude of pets.

Reid Mitchell (Co-author of 'Their Voices, Varied and Many') is a New Orleanian who refugeed in Hong Kong for one crucial year and joined the Hong Kong Writers' Circle at that time. He frequently writes with Tammy Ho Lai-ming, and has also published some poetry and fiction on his own. During the 2005 academic year, he taught American Studies at the University of Hong Kong as a Visiting Fulbright Professor. Email: reidmitchell@yahoo.com..

Mohyna Srinivasan (Author of 'Runaway Bride') is a fiction writer. Although an MBA, she was always interested in writing and made it her career in 2005, after having spent seventeen years in marketing and management. She has completed her first novel, 169/1, The Mall, which awaits publication. She won a runner's up prize for her story in the RTHK Standard Short Story competition in 2006. She contributes to magazines and anthologies in Hong Kong and in India where she now lives. Mohyna came to Hong Kong in 2001 but has recently returned to India. Based in Mumbai, she has started work on her second novel which is set around the Sikh uprising in northern India.

Jane Wallace (Author of 'Coming Home') studied English Literature at Oxford University before embarking on a career in publishing and journalism which included several years on the Daily Mail in London. Born in Hong Kong, she returned in 2004 and is now writing her first novel. She is married with two children.

B B Wei (Author of 'The Swing-bed') is a bilingual author in Chinese and English, who has published work among ten publications in the UK, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and China in both languages. She was born and raised in Shanghai. At the age of fifteen, Wei published her first essay in the Shanghai Youth Newspaper. Her first novella was written when she was twenty-one years old and was published in the literary supplement of the World Journal (Asia Edition). You Lit Me Up also won the Novella of the Year Award. She was the first Chinese national reading English Literature at the University of Sussex in England in 1990s. Wei has worked as a journalist with Reuters Television and marketing executive with Dow Jones in Hong Kong. She currently resides among Hong Kong, Shanghai and San Francisco, managing her bilingual cross-cultural marketing consultancy. Wei has recently completed a novel in English about a coming of age story set in Shanghai in the 80-90s. She is working on her second novel also set in her birth-city. Email: bweib@yahoo.com.

Jeff Zroback (Co-editor of Love & Lust) is a writer and professional editor living in Hong Kong. He co-authored the short story 'Enchanted Me from the Beginning' with HKWC member Tammy Ho Lai-ming, which appears in the collection Hong Kong Whodunnits (March 2007) and the literary journal Admit 2 (January 2008). Jeff is a co-founder of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Email: zrobackjeff@hotmail.com.

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