Kim Cheng Boey was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia in 1997 where he completed his PhD with the University of Macquarie. He currently lives in Sydney and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Boey is a prize-winning poet with four published collections, including Days of No Name and After the Fire. In 1996 Boey was awarded the Singapore National Arts Council’s Young Artists Award for his artistic achievements. Boey has also published a collection of personal essays, Between Stations, describing the state of the migrant writer living between his place of birth, his adopted country, and the wider world; between the past and the present; between the city he is in, and those that live in his memory. Mr. Boey has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding advisory body.