Sonia Leung

About The Author

Sonia Leung is an award-winning poet, fiction, and creative non-fiction writer from Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies worldwide. She is the author of Don't Cry, Phoenix (2020), a poetry collection. The Girl Who Dreamed is her second book. She is finalizing her third, Three-inch Heaven, a collection of essays and short stories reflecting Chinese women's lives.

Books by Sonia Leung

The Girl Who Dreamed

A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds

At the age of 14, Sonia Leung was raped by her ping-pong coach.

She had moved from China two-and-a-half years earlier to join her family in Hong Kong, but she could not fit in. The family of six lived in a cramped subdivided hut in a Kowloon squatter village but rarely communicated with e...
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