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Eric Gamalinda

Eric Gamalinda
Manila, Philippines
Nationality
Filipino
Eric Gamalinda (born in Manila, Philippines) is a poet, fiction writer, playwright,
Born

and experimental filmmaker. His work has been described as luminous (Arthur
Sze) and wonderful and vibrant (Michael Burkard). Gamalinda is a marvelous
poet, wrote D. Nurkse, poet laureate of Brooklyn. His wistful, fierce, enthralled
voice seems to speak the true language, the sotto voce language we cant hear in
our world of binary and mutually destructive opposites.
Recognition for his work includes a New York State Council on the Arts grant for
film and media [2014], the Cultural Center of the Philippines Independent Film and
Video Awards [2004], the Asian American Literary Award and the Alice James
Books New York/New England Selection 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 Philippine National Book Award twice for
Planet Waves [novel, 1990] and My Sad Republic [2000], and the Asiaweek Short
Story Competition [1985]. He has also won the Philippines top literary prize, the
Palanca Memorial Awards, several times for poetry, fiction, non-fiction and

playwriting. He was a featured poet in The Dodge Festival's Poets Among Us

program in 1996. In 2009, his novel, The Descartes Highlands, was shortlisted for
the Man Asian Prize. In 2010, his three-act play, Resurrection, was staged offBroadway at the Clurman Theater on 42nd Street by Diverse City Inc.
He has been in residence at Civitella Ranieri [Italy], Association dArt 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 2013 he returned to Fundacion Valparaiso to work on a
new novel.
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 Universitys Asia Pacific American Studies Program in
2002-2003. He currently teaches at Columbia Universitys Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race.

Works[edit]
Publications
PoetryAmigo Warfare [Cherry Grove Collections, Cincinnati OH, 2007], Zero
Gravity [Alice James Books, Farmington ME, 1999]; Lyrics from a Dead Language
[Anvil Publishers, Manila, 1991]
NovelsThe Descartes Highlands [Akashic Books, 2014]; My Sad Republic
[University of the Philippines Press, 2000]; Empire of Memory, Confessions of a
Volcano [both Anvil Publishers, Manila, 1992, 1990]; Planet Waves [New Day,
Manila, 1989]
Short fictionPeople Are Strange Black Lawrence Press, New York, 2012];

Peripheral Vision [New Day, 1992]

AnthologyFlippin': Filipinos on America [Asian American Writers Workshop, New
York, 1996]
His stories have been published in Harper's Magazine and anthologized in Manila
Noir [Akashic Books]; 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]. A new story will soon appear in Manila
Noir [Akashic Books].
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]
and Pinoy Poetics [Meritage Press, CA, 2004].