Michael Theophilus Dom is of Simbu origin and was born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. He lives in Lae, Morobe Province and is an agriculture research scientist. He has published six collections of poetry, of which the most recent was 26 sonnets (2020, JDT Publishing). His poetry has been given glowing reviews by ‘first-wave’ Pasefika poet Konai Helu Thaman, and doyens of PNG literature Russel Soaba and Steven Edmund Winduo, and he is a much-valued and dominant voice among contemporary writers, who include Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin, Leonard Fong Roka, Jordan Dean, Caroline Evari, Dominica Are, Jimmy Drekore, Julie Mota and Emmanuel Peni. Michael was described as Papua New Guinea’s ‘unofficial poet laureate’ after such poems as In light of such wisdom, I am found wanting, A dinghy ride by starlight, Yesterday we dreamed, Dear Honorable Sirs and The Political Economy of a Pig Farmer’s Life, presented in the collection O Arise! (2014, CreateSpace).