Viona Au Yeung was born and grew up in Hong Kong. Her family’s decision not to move to California gave her the chance to keep track of how people have lived and how HK has changed/ remained the same after its handover. This also allowed her to study in the Chinese University of Hong Kong for 3 years, during which she wrote her poems The Best Comfort and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Poem collected in CU Writing in English Volume V (2005), and her short story Mirror published in Volume VI (2006). She completed her MA in Romantic and Sentimental Literature in 2006-7 in the University of York, UK, where she also did some travelling and writing.