Born in 1981, Sam Byfield is the author of From the Middle Kingdom (Pudding House Press). Recent publication credits include Heat, Cordite, Famous Reporter and the Poetry Without Borders anthology (Australia), The National Poetry Review and The Cream City Review (USA), Nimesis and The Warwick Review (UK) and The Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong). In 2008 he read at the Sydney Writers' Festival, the National Young Writers' Festival, and at literary events in Beijing and Melbourne. Byfield's first full length collection, Borderlands, will be published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2009. [Read 1 2]