Tristan Coleshaw developed an interest in the languages, literature and cultures of Asia while travelling in the region and as a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. An emerging writer, his work is concerned with the poetics of place, loss and queer narratives, with other interests including food and travel writing, LGBT rights and human rights in South East Asia. Coleshaw lives in England on the Jurassic Coast with his partner, and as well as working on his first collection of poetry is developing his first book, an autobiographical account of homophobic abuse in Western Australia. [Read]