Andrew Barker holds a BA in English Literature, an MA in Anglo/Irish Literature and a Ph.D. in American Literature. His poetry has been published in The Asian Literary Review, Fifty, Fifty, and Hong Kong, City Voices. Snowblind from my Protective Colouring, his first book of poetry, was published in 2009 by Chameleon Press, with the villanelle-sequence Everything in Life in Contagious acted at the Fringe Theatre as part of The Hong Kong Literary Festival.  He is currently working on The Village, a novel in Onegin Stanzas set in Hong Kong.