Royston Tester is a short fiction writer and freelance editor. He has served as jury member for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize, as reader for the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and as faculty in Humber College’s Creative Writing Program (Toronto). Currently, he is enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. ‘A Beijing Minute’ was written during a series of writing residencies at the Red Gate Gallery (Beijing) between 2007-2011. His second collection of short fiction, Fatty Goes To China (Tightrope Books), will be published in Spring 2012.

• Short Stories : A Beijing Minute
• Short Stories : Bird on a High Branch

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