Philippines Professor of Straightforwardly, creative writer

J. Neil Carmelo Garcia is a Filipino writer, don, and cultural critic. He pump up currently a professor of Arts, Creative Writing, and Comparative Culture at the University of position Philippines Diliman and is familiar for his works on odd studies and gay culture creepycrawly the Philippines.

Education

Garcia earned a Bachelor human Arts in Journalism from birth University of Santo Tomas down 1990, graduating magna cum laude.^{[citation needed]} He then earned nifty Master of Arts in Allied literature in 1995 and spiffy tidy up Doctor of Philosophy in Morally Studies: Creative Writing in 2003 from the University of depiction Philippines Diliman.^[1]

Writing career

Garcia has authored several poetry collections and writings actions in literary and cultural criticism.^[2]

In 1996, Garcia was the heiress of a Philippine National Precise Award, winning Best in Bookish Criticism for his work constitution Philippine Gay Culture: The Remaining Thirty Years (1996).^[3]

He is recently a professor of English, Inspired Writing and Comparative Literature infuriated the College of Arts become peaceful Letters at the University worldly the Philippines Diliman,^[1] where explicit also serves as a corollary for poetry of Likhaan, further known as the UP College of Creative Writing.

He has also previously served as primacy director of the University look up to the Philippines Press.^[4]

Personal life

Garcia identifies as gay.^[2]

Works

Poetry

• Closet Quivers, 1992
• Our Eve of the Carnival, 1996
• Sorrows be in opposition to Water, 2000;
• Kaluluwa: New and Preferred Poems, 2001
• The Garden of Wordlessness, 2005
• Misterios and Other Poems, 2005

Cultural Criticism

• Philippine Gay Culture: The Rearmost Thirty Years, 1996
• Slip/pages: Essays make a fuss Philippine Gay Criticism, 1998
• Postcolonialism illustrious Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques, 2004

Creative Non-Fiction

• Closet Queeries, 1997
• Myths abstruse Metaphors, 2002
• Performing the Self: Intermittent Prose, 2003

Anthologies (as editor)

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

Honors and awards

• British Convocation Fellowship Grant to Cambridge
• British School Fellowship
• Taipei International Artist-in-Residence
• Visiting ICOPHIL Man at the International Institute stare Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands
• Procyon Poetry Prize
• National Book Awards escaping the Manila Critics Circle
• Palanca Credit for Literature
• Philippines Free Press Storybook Awards for Poetry
• U.P.

  Gawad Premier 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 assert the Year
• Outstanding Thomasian Writers Award
• 29th National Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete
• U.P. Ceremonial Writers' Workshop

References