Mike Ladd was born in 1959, in Berkeley California, to Australian parents. He lives and writes in Adelaide, South Australia. He has worked in radio for thirty years and currently produces Poetica, a program dedicated to Australian and international poetry, broadcast each week on ABC Radio National. Ladd has published six collections of poetry; the most recent is Transit from Five Islands Press. Since the nineteen eighties he's been experimenting with poetry on screen and as audio. He travels widely, and "Angkor Three", published in Issue #15 of Cha, was written after a visit to Cambodia while Ladd was undertaking a writer's residency at Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia. [Read]