Yau Ching is a poet, filmmaker and scholar who was born in Hong Kong and educated in Hong Kong, New York and London. She has authored more than ten books including Big Hairy Egg (2011), Filming Margins: Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director (2004), and The Impossible Home (2000), which won the Hong Kong Chinese Literary Biennial Award. Her website is www.yauching.com.