Martin Villanueva (The Philippines) teaches at the Ateneo de Manila University, where he finished his undergraduate studies; he has an MFA from De La Salle University. He has received prizes from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature and has been published most recently in Plural and Softblow. He authored Narratives in and of the Mind: Approaches to Creative Nonfiction with Exercises (Sibs Publishing House Inc., 2016), and co-edited (with Ramon Guillermo) Kritika Kultura’s Special Literary Section on the Contemporary Philippine Essay (2016) and (with Oliver Ortega) the lyric essay issue of High Chair (2015). His book of poems Account is forthcoming.

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