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Author Description Boey Kim Cheng is a multi-award winning Singapore-born poet, and a 1996 recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award. He emigrated to Australia in 1997, but returned in 2013 as one of Nanyang Technological University's writers-in-residence; he is currently Associate Professor in the NTU Division of English. He has published five collections of poetry, including <em>Clear Brightness</em>, which was selected by <em>The Straits Times</em> as one of the Best Books of 2012. His writing is frequently studied in tertiary and university institutions in Singapore and abroad.<br /><br />Boey co-founded <em>Mascara Literary Review</em> in 2007, the first Australian literary journal to promote Asian Australian writing, and in 2013 co-edited the groundbreaking anthology <em>Contemporary Asian Australian Poets</em>. In 2017, Epigram Books reissued his celebrated travel memoir <em>Between Stations</em>, and released his first novel, <em>Gull Between Heaven and Earth</em>, on the life of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu.

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