About Piera
Piera is a travel writer from Hong Kong, who is based in Taipei and scattered over North America, China and various destinations real or imagined. She has authored over a dozen books for Lonely Planet and published articles in travel magazines. Chen has a BA in liberal arts from Pomona College, majoring in literature, and an MA in literary and cultural studies from the University of Hong Kong. She believes that if writing is the most disembodied of the arts, travel writing and poetry are the genre