In all, she has written six books of poetry and non-fiction, among which Round ¡V Poems and Photographs of Asia received a Bumbershoot Book Award and My Favourite Thing was a bestseller in Beijing. Cheung Mei of the Hong Kong Economic Times says of delicate access (2004), her most recent book, a bilingual English-Chinese edition of poems, with translations by Luo Hui: “Slavick sees the realistic side of the world but writes about reality with a complementary poetry.”

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Sujyot Sakhrani has been writing poetry and prose for the past 15 years. She is an active member of poetry open mike nights around Hong Kong and teaches Creative Writing and Literature to all ages. She completed her MA in Biotechnological Law and Ethics in the UK, she is also a freelance medical writer and owns her own wellness health consulting company. Her writing is currently pending publication. She resides in Hong Kong. Contact email:

Agnes Lam is an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. She has published two poetry collections, Woman to Woman and Other Poems (1997) and Water Wood Pure Splendour (2001). Her poems or literary analysis of her work have also appeared in other publications such as Ariel, Poetry International, Westerly, World Literature Today and Le Soir. Some of her poems have been translated into German (Stauffenburg, 2006) and her short story, “The mountain of

Tammy Ho writes about what makes the world a landscape of anguish and gratification: love, life and lust. More at: http://www.sighming.com