Kavita Jindal is a poet who was born and brought up in India. She has lived her adult life in England and Hong Kong.

“Raincheck Renewed” her second collection of poetry was published by Chameleon Press in January 2004. It has become a poetry bestseller in Hong Kong, the city that provides the backdrop for several of the poems in the collection.

1st PACIFIC specialises in the development and promotion of Pasifika and Asian lifewriting through
E-publishing. Started originally in 1998 as SOULTON House Publishing, 1st PACIFIC evolved in response to an increased demand from the Pacific and Asian communities for a global publishing vehicle to promote their own Lifewriting works reflecting the heritage and in many cases the necessity for unexplored and revisionist accounts of events as experienced 1st hand by those most affected. Hence the birth of 1st PACIFIC (Pasifika/PasifikASIA Lifewriting).

1st PACIFIC specialises in the development and promotion of Pasifika and Asian lifewriting through E-publishing. Started originally in 1998 as SOULTON House Publishing, 1st PACIFIC evolved in response to an increased demand from the Pacific and Asian communities for a global publishing vehicle to promote their own Lifewriting works reflecting the heritage and in many cases the necessity for unexplored and revisionist accounts of events as experienced 1st hand by those most affected. Hence the birth of 1st PACIFIC (Pasifika/PasifikASIA Lifewriting).

Ady Chung was born in HK and has lived there for 22 years. She started her tertiary studies at the Chinese University as an engineering student but later eventually switched to major in English instead. She is passionate about Shakespearean plays and enjoys creative writing, cooking and fiddling with logic games.

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 chrysanthemums”, is available in Italian.