Chris Tse is a writer, filmmaker and musician from Lower Hutt, New Zealand. In 2005 he completed a Master's degree in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington and the International Institute of Modern Letters. His poetry has been previously published in the journals Sport, Turbine and Landfall. He was the winner of the 2009 New Zealand Chinese Association/Listener short story competition. "Deracinate", published in Issue #10 of Cha, was written shortly after his first trip to China. [Read]