Michelle Bakar
Michelle Bakar completed her PhD at the University of Technology Sydney in 2007. Her writing centres on Asian Australian identities in a postcolonial/globalised context. She has been published in the online journals: EnterText (Brunel University UK); Graduate Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (Auckland University NZ); Postcolonial Text and Antipodes: North American Journal of Australian Literature (2005), UTS Anthology (2006) and in Southerly Australian Literary Journal twice in 2007. She was a recipient of the Gallery 4A Asian Australian Literature Fellowship in 2003 and of an Australia-China Council Hong Kong University Residency in 2006. She has written three unpublished novels, two of which received Highly Commended in The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for 2003 and 2004. She is working on a project about the Asian-Australian writing community, and is in the midst of writing a novel about a Chinese family in Australia.