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Andrew Barker holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature, an MA in Anglo/Irish Literature and a PhD in American Literature. He has taught at various universities in Hong Kong where he lives. His poetry has been published in Asia Literary Review, Fifty/Fifty, Outloud Too, City Voices and Asia Cha. Snowblind from my Protective Colouring, his first book of poetry, was published in 2009 by Chameleon Press, with the villanelle-sequence Everything in Life is Contagious performed at the Fringe Theatre as part of The Hong Kong Literary Festival.