Haven Books is an English-language press that aims to put a wide range of interesting books into readers' hands. Our titles focus primarily on Hong Kong and Asian themes.

Jeanann Verlee writes poems and short fiction, wields protest signs, collects tattoos, winks at boys, and competes in poetry slams. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including The New York Quarterly, Spindle, His Rib, and others. She lives in New York City with her best pal, Callisto, an 11-year-old Border Collie-mix.

Lenore Weiss, a 2008 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize finalist, has been published extensively both online and off with work in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal and others. Her chapbook Sh'ma is from Pudding House. Collections include Cellphone Poems CD and Business Plan chapbook. Weiss is also Fiction Editor at November 3rd Club.

Patricia Wellingham-Jones, a former psychology researcher and writer/editor, is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work is published in numerous anthologies, journals, and Internet magazines, including HazMat Review, Red River Review, Rattlesnake Review, Phoebe, A Room of Her Own, Centrifugal Eye, Ibbetson Street and Wicked Alice. Chapbooks include Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer (PWJ Publishing), Apple Blossoms at Eye Level (Poets Corner Press), Voices on the Land (Rattlesnake Press), and Hormone Stew (Snark Publishing). End-Cycle: poems about caregiving is her most recent chapbook. She has a longtime interest in 'healing writing' and the benefits people gain from writing and reading their work together. (www.wellinghamjones.com)

Nicole Wong's fiction has been published in Hong Kong, US, UK and Australia. She is currently a journalist for an English newspaper in Hong Kong. Contact: nicolettew@gmail.com

Xu XI is the author of six books of fiction and essays, most recently a collection, Overleaf Hong Kong: Stories and Essays of the Chinese, Overseas, and the novel The Unwalled City. She also co-edited City Stage and City Voices, the first comprehensive anthologies of Hong Kong literature in English. Her essay collection Evanescent Isles: From My City Village was published in 2008, and Haven Books will publish her novel Habit of a Foreign Sky in 2009. The latter novel was shortlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize in 2007. Xu Xi's fiction and essays are published in numerous anthologies, literary journals and magazines worldwide, and won numerous awards. She teaches writing internationally, as a visiting lecturer at several universities, and also lectures and writes regularly on globalized culture. A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, she splits her time between New York, Hong Kong and the South Island of New Zealand.

Dominica Yang belongs to Hong Kong's A-list. After her schooling in Hong Kong and England, she studied Russian Studies in London. She pursued a career in photography in London before returning to the former British colony following her marriage. Dominica has many passions, from interior design, charity work, teaching to cooking. Renowned amongst her friends for her dedication to family life, friends and work, Dominica's simple and 'Delicious' recipes reflect her happy and fulfilling life.

Susan was born and raised on a 164-acre farm in Southern Indiana where she learned to drive a tractor, harvest crops, feed the chickens and hug her beloved goat, Cinnamon. Soon after receiving her BA from Indiana University in Photo-Journalism, she married a physicist and moved to Ohio. While attending Kent State University, she worked at the largest flour mill in northeast Ohio where she kept those Accounts Receivables up-to-date (no small feat, that!). Recently moved, she and her husband built a home on the south side of Chicago with a view of the Sears Tower. She is the Editor of Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal and works (for pay!) at the Associated Press. Having begun graduate studies in poetry at Columbia College in Chicago, she now balances her studies with work, her new home and her delightful baby boy. Only Mimi Mousy Tongue knows what Susan will be doing next and she's not talking. Her poetry has appeared in several print and online magazines including Elixir, Bathtub Gin, Wicked Alice, Verse Daily and The Chaffin Journal. Susan is a 2003 recipient of The Lynda Hull Memorial Scholarship in Poetry.

Lisa Zaran is an American poet, essayist and the author of six collections including The Blondes Lay Content and the sometimes girl, the latter of which was recently the focus of a year long translation course in Germany. Selections from The Blondes Lay Content have been translated to Bangla, Hindi and Punjabi. Zaran is the founder and editor of Contemporary American Voices, an online poetry journal. She lives andwrites in Arizona.

Andrena Zawinski lives and teaches writing in Oakland, California. Her work appears widely online and in print. She is also Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com.