Associate Professor Christopher Kelen is a well known Australian poet whose works have been widely published and broadcast since the mid seventies. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature describes Kelen’s work as “typically innovative and intellectually sharp.” Kelen holds degrees in literature and linguistics from the University of Sydney and a doctorate on the teaching of the writing process from the University of Western Sydney in Nepean (Australia). Kelen’s first volume of poetry The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees won an Anne Elder Award in 1992. After winning a number of significant poetry awards, Kelen’s poetry/art collaboration with Carol Archer Tai Mo Shan/BigHatMountainwas exhibited at the Montblanc Gallery in Hong Kong’s Fringe Club in 2000. And again in 2001 another collaboration (essay and watercolour) titled Shui Yi Meng/Sleep to Dream was shown at the Montblanc Gallery. Kelen's fourth bookof poems, Republics, dealing with the ethics of identity in millennial Australia, was published by Five Islands Press in 2000. A fifth volume, NewTerritories, a pilgrimage through Hong Kong, was published with the aid of the Hong Kong Arts Development Board in 2003. In 2004 Kelen’s most recent chapbook Wyoming Suite, a North American sojourn, was released by VAC Publishing in Chicago. In 2005, Kelen’s long poem “Macau” was short-listed for the prestigious Newcastle Poetry Prize and a re-edited version of “Tai Mo Shan” appeared in Southerly. Apart from poetry Kelen publishes in a range of theoretical areas including writing pedagogy, ethics, rhetoric, cultural and literary studies and various intersections of these. Kelen currently teaches Creative Writing and Children’s Literature at the University of Macau in South China.