Riska

Riska Orpa Sari, 29, lives in Kalimantan, Borneo.Linda Spalding, in her Introduction, tells of meeting Riska in 1995 when she visited Borneo to research her latest book, The Follow. She is also a novelist, most recently of The Paper Wife, and editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. She lives in Toronto.Carol Colfer is an anthropologist who lives and works in Indonesia, and has a particular interest in forest cultures.

Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in 1982. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, The Purchase (awarded Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award), Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. Her nonfiction includes A Dark Place in the Jungle, Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood, and Who Named the Knife. In 2003 Spalding received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community. She lives in Toronto, where she is an editor of Brick magazine.www.lindaspalding.com