 Jason S Polley helped select the poetry in the March 2016 issue of Cha. He completed his PhD in English Literature, specialising in 20th-century Irish fiction and postmodern American fiction and culture. His monograph examines what he calls "everyday justice" in contemporary American literature. He's currently completing a book project on ekphrasis and encyclopedism in Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves. Polley teaches Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University and his areas of interest include poststructuralism and postmodernism. [ Cha profile]  Sreedhevi Iyer helped select the prose in the March 2016 issue of Cha. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, with publications in Asia Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Ginosko Literary Journal, Asian American Literary Review, Hotel Amerika, Two Thirds North, and guest edited the Hong Kong Special Folio for Drunken Boat during The Umbrella Revolution. She has pieces forthcoming from Malaysia, Australia and Sardinia. Her PhD centres on analysing how authors of colour present themselves in literary discourse, using ethnographic data from Junot Diaz, Mohsin Hamid and Madeleine Thien to demonstrate how authors pigeon-hole themselves according to their discursive constructs. [ Cha profile]
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