Sarah Stanton grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Halfway through university, she abandoned a promising career in not having much of a career when she transferred from an opera performance course into a Chinese language major, having fallen for the Middle Kingdom more or less overnight. Three years, two exchange programmes and one potential firework accident later, she has settled in Beijing as a freelance translator and editor specialising in contemporary literature. As a writer, she has been published in a variety of magazines, including Voiceworks, Hunger Mountain, H.A.L., dotdotdash and Starry Rhymes (Read This Press). She is a recipient of the Talus Prize and was recently shortlisted for the James White Award. She blogs here and tweets here. [Read]