Gillian Bickley was born and educated in the United Kingdom and has lived mostly in Hong Kong since 1970. Her poetry has been anthologised in many different countries and has been translated into several languages. Bickley has held academic university positions in Hong Kong, Nigeria and New Zealand and is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. With her husband, Verner Bickley, she is co-founder of The Proverse Literary Prize for unpublished writing. China Suite and other Poems is her fourth collection of poems in which she responds to people, art and life, creating a record of her particular space in time.