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Profile: Robert Raymer, an American, teaches creative writing at the Centre for Language Studies at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Previously he taught at Universiti Sains Malaysia for ten years in Penang, Malaysia, where he also lived for 21 years. He now lives in Kuching, Sarawak, on the island of Borneo with his wife, Jenny, and their sons Jason and Justin. His son Zaini studies in Penang. Born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Greenville and Newark, Ohio, studied at Miami University, and lived in Boulder, Colorado and Madison, Wisconsin, where he was a regional manager for Kinko’s, in charge of eleven stores in three states before retiring in 1984 at the age of 28 to move to Malaysia to write a novel. Since Robert was the first employee at Kinko’s to officially retire, he received a full-fledge retirement party, attended by Mr. “Kinko”, Paul Orfalea. Robert has backpacked solo to 36 countries, taught tennis, modeled, played Santa Claus, managed a stage crew for Penang Players, danced the tango in the Oscar-winning French film Indochine (1992), and was an extra in Beyond Rangoon, Paradise Road and Anna and the King. His short stories and articles have appeared in The Literary Review, Thema, London Magazine, Frank, Going Places, Silver Kris, Far East Traveler, Reader’s Digest, and 25 Malaysian Short Stories, Best of Silverfish New Writing 2001-2005. His short stories have been taught at several Malaysian universities, in SPM literature, and used for Cambridge International Examinations. He has a collection of stories set in Malaysia, Lovers and Strangers Revisited (Silverfish, 2005), first published as Lovers and Strangers (Heinemann Asia, 1993). He is the editor of Silverfish New Writings 4 (Silverfish, 2004). Forthcoming from MPH: Twenty Years in Malaysia: Movie Magic, Mysterious Musings, and Melodramatic Moment. See website

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