J. Neil Garcia

Graduated magna cum laude in AB Journalism (University of Santo Tomas). MA in Comparative Literature and PhD in Creative Writing (both from the University of the Philippines). Prolific contributor to Philippine gay literature.

Recipient of multiple awards including:

British Council Fellowship Grant to Cambridge, British Academy Fellowship, Taipei International Artist-in-Residence, Visiting ICOPHIL Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands, Procyon Poetry Prize, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle, Palanca Awards for Literature, Philippines Free Press Literary Awards for Poetry, U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Artist,, U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Work,, U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Research, U.P. Gawad Chancellor as Artist of the Year, Outstanding Thomasian Writers Award, 29th National Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete, 20th U.P. National Writers' Workshop.

AUTHOR OF THESE BOOKS!

I'd marry him.

If he weren't gay and I weren't a lesbian.


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