Chris Maden has lived and sometimes even worked in Hong Kong since 1987. He loves high lonely places and the deep blue ocean; he has travelled through much of South, East and South-East Asia, and done furloughs in the Middle-East and North Africa, all of which he brings to his writing. He writes for the Hong Kong Free Press and Hong Kong Review of Books, and is chairman of Hong Kong Writers' Circle. He has published a few short stories, and is working on a couple of novels.