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Eric Gamalinda was born in Manila
and manages this web site from New York City.
Awards and grants for his writing and film include the Cultural Center of the Philippines
Independent Film and Video Awards [2004], the Asian American Literary Award for Zero Gravity [poems, 2000], the New York Foundation for the Arts [fiction, 1998], the Philippine Centennial
Literary Prize for My Sad Republic [novel, 1998], the National
Book Award, Manila, for Planet Waves [novel, 1990], and
a number of Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for fiction, poetry, essay and playwriting in the Philippines. His latest novel
manuscript, The Descartes Highlands, was recently shortlisted
for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.
Publications
Poetry: Amigo Warfare [Cherry Grove Collections], Zero Gravity [Alice James Books], Lyrics from a Dead Language [Anvil, Manila]
Novels: My Sad Republic [University of the Philippines Press], Empire of Memory, Confessions of a Volcano [both Anvil Publishers, Manila], Planet Waves [New Day, Manila].
Short stories:
People are Strange [Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming]; Peripheral Vision [New Day]
Anthology:
Flippin': Filipinos on America [Asian American Writers Workshop].
His stories have also been published in Harper's Magazine and anthologized in Charlie
Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World [Penguin]; The Thirdest
World [factory school]; Bold Words: A Century of Asian
American Writing [Rutgers University Press]; Juncture:
New Experimental Writing [Soft Skull]; In My Life: Encounters
with the Beatles [Fromm International]; Balikbayan: Racconti
filippini contemporanei [Feltrinelli, Milan].
His poems have been anthologized in Language for a New Century [W.W. Norton]; Structure & Surprise [Teachers & Writers Collaborative]; Stranger at Home [Interpoezia/Numina Press]; Saints
of Hysteria [Soft Skull Press]; Poetry Daily [Sourcebooks
Inc.]; Sweet Jesus [The Anthology Press]; Returning a Borrowed Tongue [Coffee House Press]; Brown River, White Ocean [Rutgers University Press]; Lo Ultimo de Filipinas: Antologia Poetica [Huerga y Fierro, Madrid].
His essays have been anthologized in Vestiges of War: The Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an
Imperial Dream [New York University Press, 2003]; Pinoy
Poetics [Meritage Press, 2004].
He was publications director of the Asian American Writers Workshop until 1997,
Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999, and Visiting Scholar at New York University's
Asia Pacific American Studies Program in 2002-2003. He currently teaches at Columbia University's Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race.
He has been in residence at Civitella Ranieri [Italy], Association d'Art de La Napoule [France],
Chateau de Lavigny Residence pour Ecrivains [Switzerland], Fundacion Valparaiso [Spain], The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio
[Italy], Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers [Scotland], and The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony,
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ledig House International Writers'
Colony [US]. In 2010, he will be in residence at the Liguria Arts and Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy.
You can read his blog or watch his film
poems on You Tube by clicking on the links below.
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