Piera is an anglophone writer from Hong Kong. She has (co-)authored some 20 travel guides for Lonely Planet, and published poems in Sky Island Journal, Anthropocene, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Voice & Verse, Canto Cutie, and elsewhere. Piera is also a translator with expertise in the arts. She has a BA in literature from Pomona College and an MA in literary and cultural studies from the University of Hong Kong. While at Pomona, she studied prosody and scansion from the late poet Robert Mezey at both Pomona and the Claremont Graduate School. Piera believes that if writing is the most disembodied of the arts, travel writing and poetry are the genres that make it less so. This is why she loves both.