Out of Place is part memoir, part journey. In this poetry collection Kate Rogers reflects on her years in Hong Kong, and travels back to her childhood self and the early lives of her parents and immigrant ancestors. The epigraph by philosopher Edward W. Said, author of Orientalism, raises the essential question posed by this book: How do we decide who we are when "all families invent their parents and children, give each of them a story, character, fate, even a language"?

Kate Rogers lectures in Literature and Media Studies at City University, Hong Kong. Her poetry about the Hong Kong protests has appeared in The Guardian and the Asia Literary Review. Other publication credits include the Kyoto Journal, ASIATIC: the Journal of English Language and Literature at the Islamic University of Malaysia, Contemporary Verse II, Orbis International, and Many Mountains Moving. Kate's previous books are City of Stairs (Haven 2012) and Painting the Borrowed House (Proverse 2008). She is co-editor of the OutLoud Too anthology (MCCM 2014) and Not A Muse: the inner lives of women (Haven 2009).

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