Maureen has directed plays and documentaries, penned a newspaper column and tutored at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Arriving in Sydney in 1989, Maureen has convened various poetic events, read at the Sydney Writers Festival, and has been published in Westerly, Imago, the Sydney Morning Herald, and anthologies including Australian Asian Poets. She edited the independently published anthology Mood Lighting which won the 2005 Wild & Woolley Prize for poetry. Maureen holds a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK.