Martin A Bradley is a freelance British writer who has been travelling and writing, in Asia, for fifteen years. Currently he is the author of seven books, one just published concerning a Bangladeshi artist. Martin also writes short stories, published in anthologies as far flung as Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and USA. His art writing has been published in Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. Martin was invited to Singapore for the Lit Fest, and to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Writers Meet. He continues to edit and publish his The Blue Lotus, a magazine concerned with Asian art, culture and literature, and has done so since 2011. (picture credit: Top’s Studio, Muar, Malaysia).