Renee Liang

Renee Wen-Wei Liang (born 1973) is a New Zealand paediatrician, poet, essayist, short story writer, playwright, librettist, theatre producer and medical researcher. She has been the recipient of several awards for her services to arts, science and medicine and is also noted for her services to the Chinese New Zealand community. She lives in Auckland. Biography Liang was born in 1973. She is a second generation Chinese New Zealander and has two younger sisters, Rhea (a surgeon) and Roseanne (a filmmaker). She attended St Cuthbert's College and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1996, a Master of Creative Writing in 2007 and a Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Theatre) in 2009. She also holds a specialist qualification as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She has toured eight plays to festivals and venues nationally. Her poetry and short stories have been published in both New Zealand and overseas journals and websites such as New Zealand Listener, JAAM, Blackmail Press, Tongue in your Ear, Sidestream and Magazine. Liang's play The Bone Feeder was commissioned as an opera through Carla Van Zon, and performed as an opera on 23 March 2017 at the Auckland Arts Festival. Her Interactive digital narrative work Golden Threads was created in partnership with illustrator Allan Xia as part of Auckland Museum's 2017 exhibition "Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey".