Alison Wong was born and grew up in New Zealand. She spent several years in China and now lives in Wellington. She was the 2002 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University, and her collection, Cup, was shortlisted for the Best First Book for Poetry at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her poetry was selected for Best New Zealand Poems in 2006 and 2007, and her first novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, will be published in 2009 by Penguin New Zealand and Picador Australia, UK and Asia. [Read]