Aleksandar Pavković is Associate Professor in Politics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession (with Peter Radan, 2007), The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia: Nationalism and War in the Balkans (2000) and Slobodan Jovanovic: An Unsentimental Approach to Politics (1993). He is the editor (with Peter Radan) of the Ashgate Research Companion to Secession (2011). He has also published widely in peer-reviewed journals and has edited several collections.

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Australian poet, scholar and visual artist, and Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he has taught Creative Writing and Literature. His poetry has been published in Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian, Swedish, Indonesian and Filipino languages. The most recent of his many poetry books is Scavenger’s Season (2014). He has published three scholarly volumes about poetry: Poetry, Consciousness and Community (2009), City of Poets: Exploring Macao Poetry Today (2009) and Anthem Quality (2014). He is Literary Editor for Postcolonial Text.