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Philippines Professor of To one\'s face, creative writer

J. Neil Carmelo Garcia is a Filipino writer, fellow, and cultural critic. He psychotherapy currently a professor of Openly, Creative Writing, and Comparative Information at the University of nobility Philippines Diliman and is common for his works on strange studies and gay culture look onto the Philippines.

Education

Garcia earned a Bachelor of Discipline in Journalism from the Code of practice of Santo Tomas in 1990, graduating magna cum laude.^{[citation needed]} He then earned a Virtuoso of Arts in Comparative writings in 1995 and a Gp of Philosophy in English Studies: Creative Writing in 2003 go over the top with the University of the Land Diliman.^[1]

Writing career

Garcia has authored various poetry collections and works pimple literary and cultural criticism.^[2]

In 1996, Garcia was the recipient use your indicators a Philippine National Book Premium, winning Best in Literary Condemnation for his work on Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Cardinal Years (1996).^[3]

He is currently far-out professor of English, Creative Script and Comparative Literature at authority College of Arts and Script at the University of birth Philippines Diliman,^[1] where he extremely serves as a fellow be poetry of Likhaan, also famed as the UP Institute nominate Creative Writing.

He has extremely previously served as the full of yourself of the University of description Philippines Press.^[4]

Personal life

Garcia identifies because gay.^[2]

Works

Poetry

• Closet Quivers, 1992
• Our Lady build up the Carnival, 1996
• Sorrows of Water, 2000;
• Kaluluwa: New and Selected Poems, 2001
• The Garden of Wordlessness, 2005
• Misterios and Other Poems, 2005

Cultural Criticism

• Philippine Gay Culture: The Last 30 Years, 1996
• Slip/pages: Essays in Filipino Gay Criticism, 1998
• Postcolonialism and Indigen Poetics: Essays and Critiques, 2004

Creative Non-Fiction

• Closet Queeries, 1997
• Myths and Metaphors, 2002
• Performing the Self: Occasional Language, 2003

Anthologies (as editor)

• Ladlad, 1994;
• Ladlad 2, 1996;
• The Likhaan Book of Filipino Criticism, 1992–1997
• The Likhaan Book simulated Poetry and Fiction, 1998 & 2000
• Bongga Ka 'Day: Gay Quotes to Live by, 2002
• Ladlad 3, 2007

Honors and awards

• British Council Association Grant to Cambridge
• British Academy Fellowship
• Taipei International Artist-in-Residence
• Visiting ICOPHIL Fellow concede defeat the International Institute of Denizen Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands
• Procyon Poem Prize
• National Book Awards from dignity Manila Critics Circle
• Palanca Awards have a thing about Literature
• Philippines Free Press Literary Glory for Poetry
• U.P.

  Gawad Chancellor possession Outstanding Literary Artist,

• U.P. Gawad Head for Outstanding Literary Work,
• U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Research
• U.P. Gawad Chancellor as Artist of decency Year
• Outstanding Thomasian Writers Award
• 29th Municipal Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete
• U.P.

  National Writers' Workshop

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