Sharon Bakar is British but considers herself as a "local foreigner", having lived and worked in Malaysia for the past twenty years. Her fiction has appeared in Silverfish New Writing 1, Men's Review and The Edge, and her articles on English Language issues have appeared in The Star. An English lecturer and teacher-trainer by profession, she's a self-confessed bookaholic and a founder member of the thriving Klang Valley-based reading group, Fiction & Friends. She lives in Petaling Jaya with her husband.