Chris Tse is a Wellington writer, actor, musician and occasional filmmaker. He studied English literature and film at Victoria University where he also completed an MA in Creative Writing. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines and he has had short stories recorded for Radio NZ. He won the 2009 NZ Chinese Association/Listener short story competition. Native Montrealer Erin Scudder moved to Wellington in 2001. She has just earned an MA (with distinction) in literature from Victoria University. She now teaches American Literature - also moonlighting as a librarian - while she works toward completing her first book of poetry. Born in New Zealand in 1952, Harry Jones's first ambition was to be a painter - as a schoolboy, he was given lessons by Colin McCahon. He lived in England from 1974 to 1994, where he was awarded an Exhibition to read English at Cambridge. He now lives in Tauranga and publishes poems in NZ and UK poetry magazines.