Sian Robyns is a PhD candidate in literary translation studies at Victoria University of Wellington, where she is working on an annotated translation of Le Complexe de Caliban by the French writer Linda Lê. Sian has worked as a journalist, a press secretary and public sector communications manager and has finally got round to calling herself a writer. Her translation of Linda Lê's Conte de l'amour bifrons will be published by Mākaro Press in Wellington in 2016.