Martin Alexander is a member of the Hong Kong Writers’ Circle and OutLoud, the poetry group. He is poetry editor of The Asia Literary Review. A collection of his poems, Clearing Ground, was published by Chameleon Press in March 2004. Martin won the SCMP Short Story Competition in 1999. He has had poetry and short stories published in Dimsum,  The OutLoud Anthology, CityPoetry  and  Poetry Live! (Hong Kong); in The Vientiane Times (Laos); and in Akhbar (Egypt). Martin has been a featured writer at international literary festivals in Hong Kong, Singapore, Cairo and Guangzhou. The Kassia Women’s Choir performed Survive the Night, with music composed by Phil Tudor, in the Concert Hall of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in June 2005. He has a motorbike, a macaw, a murderous appetite for meat and a dream come true: reading with Seamus Heaney (at the 2006 Festival in Hong Kong).