About the Author
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Gillian Bickley (née Workman), born and educated in the United Kingdom, has lived mostly in Hong Kong since 1970. Her books include "China Suite and other Poems" (2009), "Sightings: a collection of Poetry" (2007), "Moving House and other Poems from Hong Kong" (2005) and "For the Record and other Poems of Hong Kong" (2003), the latter two now translated into Chinese. She is the Author of "The Stewarts of Bourtreebush" (2003) and "The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889)" (1997), and Editor of "The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart" (2008), "A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong: Court in Time" (2005; 2nd edition, 2009), "The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897" (2002) and "Hong Kong Invaded! A '97 Nightmare" (2001). Her poetry has been anthologised in Hong Kong, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Individual poems have been translated into several languages. She was Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University for twenty-two years. She has also held academic positions at the University of Lagos (Nigeria), Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of Hong Kong. She is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. With her husband, Verner Bickley, with whom she travels widely, she is co-founder of The Proverse Prize for unpublished non-fiction, fiction or poetry.
Gillian believes that writers need to go out to meet their readers and has given many talks and readings in academic institutions, to community groups and societies. Once or twice a year, basing her narrative on her work on nineteenth-century Hong Kong, she gives a Hong Kong Heritage Walk to a small group.
