JASON S POLLEY allocates his time to reading, scuba diving, practicing yoga, and getting tattooed. He began what was to become refrain in early 1997 while backpacking the Indian Subcontinent, but shelved it later that year to devote himself to the study and composition of academic prose. He returned to his lone work of fiction in order to meet the deadline for the 2009 Proverse Prize. Since 1998 he has lived in Guangzhou, Montreal , Bogota, Guayaquil and Hong Kong . He currently teaches Literary Theory, American Culture and Contemporary Fiction at Hong Kong Baptist University. refrain was launched on 23 November 2010. His second work of creative non-fiction, cemetery miss you, was published by Proverse in November 2011. In the form of transcripts from audio recordings, it recounts the first year or so of a Pakistani illegal's experiences in Hong Kong.

BOOKS BY JASON S POLLEY PUBLISHED BY PROVERSE HONG KONG

cemetery miss you

refrain

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JASON S. POLLEY gave a reading at Kubrick, Hong Kong, on 27 March 2011. For photos, video clips and a write-up, see: