Alma Anonas Carpio is a poet and full-time journalist. She is the associate editor and tech editor of Philippine Graphic, a stringer for Agence France-Presse and variously a contributor, correspondent, or correspondent for various other magazines, including Business Mirror, Cook magazine, and Medical Observer.
Edgar Calabia Samar, poet and fictionist, has received the Palanca Awards for his poetry collections and futuristic fiction, the PBBY-Salanga Writer's Prize for children’s literature, the NCCA Writer's Prize for the Novel, the Gantimpalang Collantes sa Sanaysay, and the Gawad Surian sa Tula. His latest book, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, was published by Anvil in 2009, while his poetry book, Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay, was nominated for the National Book Award. Samar teaches Philippine Literature and Creative Writing at the Ateneo de Manila University where he currently serves as head of the Creative Writing Desk of the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP). He is finishing his Ph.d. in Malikhaing Pagsulat at the University of the Philippines.
Kristian Sendon Cordero, one of our regular contributors and among the most active poets in the Bikol literary renaissance, recently won the 2009 Maningning Miclat Prize for Poetry, among many other awards including the Palanca, the National Book Award, and the NCCA Writers Prize. He teaches literature at the Ateneo de Naga University.
Robin Lim is a grandmother, poet, and midwife. Following in the tradition of her own Filipino lola, Vicenta Munar Lim, a hilot, she sits at the doorway between life and death, gently tearing and biting angel’s wings. Lim lives with her musician husband and eight gifted children in the traditional village of Nyuh Kuning, Ubud, Bali. In 2006 Lim was given the Alexander Langer International Peace Award. In September 2009 Robin's novel, Butterfly People, was published by Anvil Publishing in Manila.
Rebecca T. Añonuevo has written five books of poetry and three children’s books. Her poetry books are the poetry collections which won for her five Palanca Awards for Literature while her children’s books, published by Adarna, are winners of the Philippine Board of Books for the Young (PBBY) Salanga Writers Prize. One of her children’s books is among the top 25 bestsellers of Adarna. She has also won National Book Award for Literary Criticism from the Manila Critics Circle in 2004. Becky teaches literature and writing at Miriam College, where she has served as head of the English Department and currently as head of the Filipino Department.
Gemino H. Abad is University Professor emeritus of literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines. Poet, fictionist, and literary critic, he has written many books and won many awards and honors, the most recent being the Premio Feronia in Italy. Apart from his own books of poetry and essays on poetry, Jimmy is also known for his three-volume historical anthology of Filipino poetry in English. In 2008 he put out the first two-volume set of his six-volume historical anthology of Filipino short stories in English; the second set is in press, while he is at work on the last set.
Rio Alma, or Virgilio S. Almario, who has written some 25 books of poetry and literary criticism in Filipino, was conferred the Order of National Artist for Literature in 2003. His latest book is Muling Pagkatha sa Ating Bansa or Re-imagining Our Nation (UP Press, 2010) launches March 5, 2010.
Leonardo Aguinaldo is a self-taught painter born in Baguio whose interests range from his cultural roots to the environment and the planet. An active member of the Baguio Arts Guild, he has taken part in various community cultural and art projects as well as local and national art shows. Leo is a recipient of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award, a finalist at Sea Art Festival of the Busan Biennale in South Korea, the Grand Prize winner of the Asean Art Awards in 2004 sponsored by Philip Morris in Bangkok Thailand.
Stevesantos exhibited at a very young age in show arranged for him by his teacher Roberto Chabet. Since then he has held almost 20 solo exhibits, has won the AAP national competition, the BF Goodrich Filipiniana painting contest, and the National Shell Art Contest. Steve is the son of the noted artist, Mauro Malang Santos. In commercial design, Steve has been a book designer, a web designer, and art director for local and international magazines, including several Hong Kong publications such as The Asset business magazine, Asiamoney, Euromoney, Asian Finance & Executive, Lifestyle Asia, Wingtips, and Orientations
Jun-Jun Sta. Ana, who has permitted us to raid his website for many of the art works that will grace our pages in the future, is a painter, multimedia, print, and installation artist based in Chicago, Ill. Apart from his extensive local showings, Jun-Jun has exhibited in Chicago, New York, LA, and in Russia.
