CYAN ABAD-JUGO took her master's in Children's Literature at Simmons College , Boston , and is currently pursuing a PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines . Her first book, Father and Daughter: The Figures of Our Speech, was a joint project with father Gémino H. Abad (Anvil 1996). This was followed by a collection of short fiction called Sweet Summer and Other Stories (UP Press 2004). Her most recent book, Leaf and Shadow: Stories About Some Friendly Creatures (Anvil 2008), includes her children's story "Behind The Old Aparador" which won second place at the Carlos Memorial Palanca Awards in 2003.
CERES ALABADO Born: Manila ; October 26, 1923. Fictionist, teacher. Her parents are Dr. Gervacio Cuyugan, a surgeon, and Jacinta Santos, a nurse. She is married to Corban Kabiling Abalado, a lawyer. They have five children. She finished primary schooling at the Lucena Elementary School and secondary schooling at the Philippine Women's University (PWU), 1939. She earned her bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in education from the PWU, 1950; and master's degree in education, with distinction, from the same university, 1956. She obtained a diploma from the Institute of Children 's Literature in Connecticut , USA ; and took a piano teacher's music course from the Holy Ghost College in Manila , 1943. Alabado taught at the PWU, where she also served as administrative officer, and at the Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School of Education. She served as coordinator for the National Economic Council of the University of the Philippines , US Assistance for International Development (USAID) library research project, 1968-1970, and consultant for Nutrition Center 's Aklat Adarna writing workshop which later put out the children's book series, Bulilit (Kid). She has attended various international conferences on juvenile literature.
Alabado founded the Children's Literature Association of the Philippines and Pamana Inc, both aimed at developing children's literature; and the Filipino Library, the first to publish Filipino picture books for children. Her other organizational affiliations are the Children's Museum and Library Inc, Association for Childhood Education International, Education Forum, and Philippine Librarians Association.
Alabado's published books of juvenile literature, including those for preschoolers and teenagers, are The Little Lizard and Other Stories, The Big Lonely House and Other Stories, Tupo and the Blow Pipe and Other Stories, What is Christmas?, Possession, The Terrible Devil, Tasaday, The Rattan Gatherer, What is Red?, What is Blue?, What is Yellow?, Dog, What Do You Say?, Asog, I See Red in a Circle, and Batang RP (RP Child). She also wrote Writing for Children in the Philippines and in the Third World . Alabado has been anthologized in numerous publications in the United States . She was editor of Kosmik, a science magazine for children. She wrote the novel Kangkong 1986, and has also written for television, radio, and the movies.
Alabado received the PWU Jubilee Award, the Catholic Mass MediaAwards, and the Philippine Board of Books for Young People (PBBY) General Achievement Award.
DEAN FRANCIS ALFAR, born 1969, is a playwright, novelist, and writer of speculative fiction. He advocates the writing of fantastic literature. His articles and fiction have been published both locally and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and more. His works have garnered him ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, including the Grand Prize for his novel, Salamanca (2006), as well as the Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion. Alfar edits the Philippine Speculative Fiction series. He is also a comic book creator, a blogger, and an entrepreneur.
GREGORIO T. AMANO (Gregorio Taer Affiano)
Born: Vigan, Ilocos Sur; November 17, 1934. Fictionist, teacher. He is the son of Esteban Amano and Olympia Taer. He obtained his education degree from the Philippine College of Arts and Trades in Manila . He was later granted a scholarship under the Colombo Plan to study in Tokyo , Japan . He taught at the University of Northern Philippines in Vigan, became principal then chief of the Education Department if the Ilocos Norte College of Arts and Trade (now a college of Don Mariano Marcos State University ) in Laoag City . He is a member of Gunglo Dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano (GUMIL) Laoag, GUMIL Ilocos Norte and GUMIL Filipinas. He is at present a professor and administrator at the Don Mariano Marcos State University .
Amano began writing in Ilocano in 1957.That same year, his poem “Arado” was published in Bannawag. Since then, he has published many poems, essays on practical arts, and short stories in the same magazine. His best-known stories are “Dimo Koma Biroken Ti Kaasida” (Do Not Look For Their Mercy), “Talna” (Peace), and “Bubon” (Well). Some of his works were anthologized in Tugot (Foot-prints), edited by Onofrecia I. Ibarra and Hermenegildo A.Viloria and published by GUMIL Ilocos Sur. A former editor of the Philippine Educational Journal, he has also authorized four popular books on practical arts.
In 1986 he won first prize in the short story writing contest in the Gov Roque Ablan Awards for Iluko Literature
FE MARIA ARRIOLA
Born: Quezon City ; June 10, 1943. Essayist. Her parents are Amado Capellan and Pacita Erum. She is married to Emmanuel Arriola Jr. with whom she has two daughters. She obtained her bachelor of arts in English and psychology from St. Theresa's College in 1963. She has worked as an interviewer for National Life Insurance Co, 1963-1965; account executive for Philippine Advertising Counselors, 1965-1969; research assistant for ICARP, 1973-1975; research associate of the Population Center Foundation, 1975-1980; and freelance copywriter, 1980-1984. Deeply involved in the Philippine feminist movement, she is a board member of Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibolna Kamalayan (KASIBULAN, Women in the Arts and Newly Emergent Consciousness) and secretary-general of TERESA MAKABAYAN, a group of Theresian alumnae active in social causes.
Arriola authorized Si Maria, Nena, Gabriela, Atbp., Kuwentong Kasaysayan ng Kababaihan (Maria, Nena, Gabriela, and Others, Historical Narrative of Women),1990, a publication of St. Scholastica's College Institute of Women's Studies and GABRIELA, an alliance of progressive women's organizations; and co-authorized History of the Burgis,1987, with Mariel N. Francisco. She edited Luksong Tinik (Leaping Game), 1992, a book on childrearing, and The Body Book, 1993.
PEDRO AUNARIO (Pedro Rivero Aunerio)
Born: Ermita, Manila ; June 29, 1878 Died: January 27, 1943. Essayist. His parents are Hugo Aunario and Maximiana Rivero. He was married to Cristina Maglaque with whom he had 11 children. He started as a reporter for newspapers like La Patria, La Aurora, La Fraternidad, La Democracia, and El Renacimiento, then became associate editor of La Vanguardia in 1916. Aside from his daily articles, he also contributed to Renacimiento Filipino, Cultura Filipina, Philippine Review, and The Citizen.
Aunario served in the government as representative of the Mountain Province at the Philippine Assembly between 1916 and 1923, and member of the Independence Mission headed by Manuel L. Quezon in 1919. He was also a correspondent of the Royal Spanish-American Academy .
A crusading journalist, Aunario became known for his vitriolic editorials and exposes of anomalies in government. One of his frequently anthological articles, “Oracion del Periodista” (The Journalist's Prayer), is an exhortation to his colleagues to adhere to ethical responsibilities.
Aunarios' first collection of articles, En el yunque cotidiano (On the Daily Anvil), won the Premio Zobel in 1934.His second, Pugnas de lenguas (The Fight Between Languages), consisting articles published in La vanguardia in 1938-1940,won the Commonwealth literary award for the essay category in 1940. In the banner article “Pugna de Lenguas,” he proposed the establishment of an Academy of Foreign Languages which would make world literary classics available to the masses.
RICA BOLIPATA-SANTOS teaches at the Department of English at the Ateneo de Manila. She is also consultant for Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation and is the Executive Director for the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALIWW). She is a columnist at the Philippine Star and has published essays in various publications. She has won a Free Press Literary Award, as well as the 2007 Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award for Love, Sesire, Marriage: Reflections of a Young Wife (Milflores Publishing).
ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born Canadian writer, lives in Mississauga , Ontario , Canada , where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas , Manila ), he taught English and Literature at the Philippines ' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada , the U.S.A. , and the Philippines . His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House .
Casuga was a 1972 Fellow at the Siliman Writer's Workshop in Silliman University , Dumaguete. He won the national Philiippine Parnaso Poetry Contest ( now defunct) in the 70s; First Prizes in the Mississauga , Canada Library Systems Literary Contests in 1990 (for Fiction), 1996 (for Poetry), and 1998 (for Poetry). He was editor of the Journal of Arts and Sciences in UST (1961-62), Graduate School Journal of UST (1964), Literary Editor of the San Beda College Journal (1965-1968), and Assistant Literary Editor of the UST's Varsitarian (1962). His works were published in the Philippines Free Press, Graphic Weekly Magazine, NOW Philippines, The Sunday Times Magazine, Asia-Philippines Leader, Poetry Magazine (Maryland), Amihan (UST), De La Salle Philosophy Journal, San Beda Journal., Philippine Writing (edited by the late NVM Gonzalez), and poetry anthologies; viz., A Habit of Shores (UP Press, e. Gemino H. Abad); Cited extensively in Isagani Cruz's Beyond Futility (Philippine Literary Criticism. He publishes a literary blog at http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com/.
CONCHITINA R. CRUZ teaches creative writing and comparative literature at UP Diliman. A Palanca and National Book Award winner, she is the youngest poet in A Habit of Shores, the third and last volume of the Man of Earth series of anthologies which spans a century of Philippine poetry and verse in English. While on a Fulbright grant, Cruz studied and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she received her MFA in Writing. She is also a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant. Her poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, Philippine Studies and the online journal High Chair. Her works include Disappear, a chapbook published in 2005 by High Chair, Dark Hours, published in 2005 by The UP Press, and Elsewhere Held and Lingered, published in 2008 by High Chair.
CONCHITINA R. CRUZ teaches creative writing and comparative literature at UP Diliman. A Palanca and National Book Award winner, she is the youngest poet in A Habit of Shores, the third and last volume of the Man of Earth series of anthologies which spans a century of Philippine poetry and verse in English. While on a Fulbright grant, Cruz studied and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she received her MFA in Writing. She is also a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant. Her poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, Philippine Studies and the online journal High Chair. Her works include Disappear, a chapbook published in 2005 by High Chair, Dark Hours, published in 2005 by The UP Press, and Elsewhere Held and Lingered, published in 2008 by High Chair.
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