Leoncio Deriada /

John Iremil Teodoro /

Merlinda Bobbis /
Marcelo Santos /
Alice Tan Gonzales /
Merlie M. Alunan /
Lakambini Sitoy /
Lualhati Bautista /
Rosario Cruz Lucero /
John Barrios /
Genevieve Asenjo /
Alex De Los Santos /
Gemino Abad

LEONCIO DERIADA
- FATHER OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN WESTERN VISAYAS
-born in Iloilo
- went to Davao National HS, graduated 1955
- BA English in Ateneo De Davao University, graduate at 1959
- MA in English at Xavier University (1970)
- PhD in English and Literature w/ specialization in creative writing in Siliman University (1981)
- later served as a professor and chairperson for English Dept @ Siliman U

ACHIEVEMENTS:
-17 Palanca Awards
- 5 first place:
>The Day of Locusts (Short Story, 1975)
> Mutya ng Saging (Dulaang May Isang Yugto, 1987)
>The Man Who Hated Birds (Short story for Children, 1993)
>Medea of Siquijor (One-act play, 1999)
> Maragtas: How Kapinangan Tricked Sumakwel Twice" (Full-Length Play, 2001)
- Palanca Hall of Famer (Sept. 1, 2001)
- Gawad CCP para sa Sining
- Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas
- Asiaweek, Graphic, Focus, Yuhum Magazine (Iloilo)
- Blue Knight Award from Ateneo de Davao for Outstanding Achievement in Literature
- In 2002, he was one of Metrobank's Outstanding Teachers.

WORKS:
Fiction: Drama:
-Road to Mawab (1984) -The Dog-Eaters (1986)
-Night Mares (1988) Anthologies:
- The Week of the Whales (1994) -Ani, West Visayas (1989)
-Patubas (1995)
-Baul (1999)
JOHN IREMIL TEODORO

• John Iremil Teodoro is from San Jose de Buenavista, Antique.

• Teodoro gained early recognition as a creative writer since his college years.
• He writes in four languages, namely English, Filipino, Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a.
• He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City.
• He has earned his master's degree in creative writing from the De La Salle University-
Manila with high distinction.
• He is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Coordinator at the Literature
Department in the College of Liberal Arts of De La Salle University.
• He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of San Agustin in Iloilo City, and a
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature from DLSU.

WORKS:
• Belasyon
• Kung ang Tula ay Pwedeng Pambili ng Lalake (If Poems Could Buy Men)
• Unang Ulan ng Mayo (The First Rain of May)
• Pagmumuni-muni at Pagtatalak ng Sirenang Nagpapanggap na Prinsesa (Thoughts and Angry
Ramblings of a Siren Pretending to be a Princess)
• Anghel sang Capiz
• Ang Santo Nino Na Walang Ulo
• Balaan
• Maikling Talambuhay ng Isang Makatang Ipinaglihi sa Paa ng Manok at Sirena

ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Teodoro is also a scholar of Hiligaynon Literature.
• He contributes reviews, travel pieces, and cultural reportage to AGUNG, The Daily Tribune, and
Liwayway magazine.
• He is presently the Secretary General of Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL or the
Writers Union of the Philippines.)
• He is a multi-awarded writer in Kinaray-a, Filipino, Hiligaynon, and English.
• He is also a member of the Alon Collective and the Tabig/Hubon Manunulat Antique.
• Among Teodoro's first distinctions were the Literature Grant of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines and Gawad Ka Amado in 1993 for his early attempts in Filipino poetry.
• His first full-length play in Filipino Unang Ulan ng Mayo (The First Rain of May) won 2nd Place at
the 1997 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
• He also won at the 2002 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in Hiligaynon with his
work ‘Anghel sang Capiz’ and in 2004 with the short story titled ‘Balaan’
• He won at the 2005 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in Filipino with his work
entitled ‘Ang Santo Nino Na Walang Ulo’

• He won at the 2003 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Essay in Filipino with his work entitled ‘
Maikling Talambuhay ng Isang Makatang Ipinaglihi sa Paa ng Manok at Sirena’
• He worked as a journalist for Bandillo ng Palawan-Edisyong Filipino in Puerto Princesa City, a
publication devoted to environmental issues in the province of Palawan.
 • He became the founding coordinator of the Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Institute,
managing director of the University of San Agustin Publishing House and moderator of the
student publications.
• He also initiated the establishment of the annual San Agustin Writers Workshop to promote
creative writing in Western Visayas
• In 2004, he was recognized as one of the Outstanding Augustinians of the Century for his
lifetime achievement in culture and the arts.
• His poetry book Kung ang Tula ay Pwedeng Pambili ng Lalake (If Poems Could Buy Men) was
shortlisted for the 2006 Manila Critics Circle National Book Award.
• His essay collection Pagmumuni-muni at Pagtatalak ng Sirenang Nagpapanggap na
Prinsesa (Thoughts and Angry Ramblings of a Siren Pretending to be a Princess) won the Manila
Critics Circle National Book Award for creative non-fiction on 2008.
• He was also bestowed the Bugal kang Anitique (Pride of Antique) Award for Culture and the Arts
from the Antique Provincial Government.
• He is now considered to be the leading pioneer in Philippine gay literature and the most
published author in Kinaray-a to date.

MERLINDA BOBIS
 Filipino Australian
 Program Convenor
 Creative Writer
 Performer
 Born November 25 1959 at Legazpi City, Albay
 Started writing at the age of 10
 High School at Bicol University High School
 BA from Aquinas University
 MA in Literature from University of Santo Thomas
 Got Doctorate of Creative Arts at University of Wollongong and taught creative writing for 20
years
 Lives in Canberra, Australia
WORKS:
• Banana Heart Summer (2008)
• First novel
• Set in a small Filipino town during a sweltering summer in the 1960s, brims with colors,
scents and flavors.
• Fish-Haired Woman (2012)
• Set in 1987 during the communist insurgency, where a townswoman fell in love with an
Australian writer who disappeared during the conflict. Ten years later, his son embarked
on a journey to find the mysterious woman.
• The Solemn Lantern Maker (2009)
• The story is about a deaf-mute boy that made paper lanterns, who witnessed and saved
an American tourist from a shooting, which ended up as part of a terrorist conspiracy.
AWARDS:
• Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for Locust Girl. A
Lovesong, 2016
• Juan C. Laya Philippine National Book Award (Best Novel in English) from the National Book
Development Board and Manila Critics Circle for Locust Girl. A Lovesong, 2016
 • Finalist: Australian Classical Music Award (Best Vocal/Choral Work of the Year) for Daragang
Magayon Cantata (a collaborative opera with Bobis’ poetry and Bruce Crossman’s music), 2007
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (National Balagtas Award: a lifetime award for author’s
poetry and prose in English, Filipino, Bikol) from the Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipinas (Union of
Philippine Writers), 2006
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Literature, Joint winner, First Prize for Peopleness (collection
of poems in English), 1987

MARCELO SANTOS
• 22-year-old first-time novelist and online video sensation
• Born October 12, 1990 in Tondo, Manila
• Started to write poems when he was still in high school
• Topics mostly about love
• Started making videos eventually wrote a novel
• Well known for his works Para sa Hopeless Romantic
WORKS:
 Para sa Hopeless Romantic (2013)
 Para sa Broken Hearted (2014)
 Mahal Mo Siya. Mahal Ka Ba? (2015)
 Move On. Walang Forever. (2016)
 Muntik Nang Maging Tayo (2017)
 Para sa Broken Hearted (2018)
 Kung Hindi Lang Tayo Sumuko (2019)
 The Iwas Sawi Project (2008) – with Rhadson Mendoza

ALICIA TAN GONZALES

 Contemporary Hiligaynon Writer
 born on July 24, 1954 in Bacolod City
 Professor in English and Literature in UP Visayas, Iloilo
 A.B. Literature at La Salle College, Bacolod
 M.A. Literature at Ateneo de Manila University
 Ph.D. English Studies: Creative Writing at University of the Philippines Diliman
ACHIEVEMENTS:
 She was awarded the Carlos Palanca Hall of Fame for Literature in 2014 for winning five first
places in the Hiligaynon Category of Maikling Kuwento.
 Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas sang Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas or UMPIL in
2001.
WORKS:
 Her five first-prize Palanca-winning works are as follows:
 “Ang Likum Sang Isla San Miguel,” Short Story-Hiligaynon
 “Sa Taguangkan Sang Duta,” Short Story-Hiligaynon
 “Esperanza,” Short Story-Hiligaynon
 “Lanton,” Short Story-Hiligaynon
 “Balay sang Monyeka,” Short Story-Hiligaynon
 Istoryahan Ta ka Uli
-Kasingkasing Press, 2016
 -a collection of stories for older children

 Ilongga Madamo nga Guya

-Seguiban Press, Iloilo, 2014
-a collection of poems on woman
 May Isa ka kuring nga Hari kag Iban pa nga Sugilanon
Kasingkasing Press, Iloilo, 2010
-a collection of seven stories for children
 Sa Taguangkan sang Duta kag Iban pa nga Sugilanon
Seguiban Press, Iloilo, 2019
-a collection of short stories in Hiligaynon

MERLIE M. ALUNAN
 (born December 14, 1943, in Dingle, Iloilo) is a Filipina poet.
 graduated from Silliman University with an MA in Creative Writing in 1974
 She teaches at the Creative Writing Center, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban
College.
 She lives in Tacloban City.
WORKS:
 Heartstone, Sacred Tree, Anvil, 1993, ISBN 978-971-27-0301-0
 Amina among the angels, University of the Philippines Press, 1997,
 Selected poems, University of the Philippines Press, 2004
NON-FICTION
 Kabilin: 100 Years of Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Centennial Foundation, 1993
EDITED
 Fern Garden: An Anthology of Women Writing in the South, Committee on Literature, National
Commission on Culture and the Arts, 1998,
ANTHOLOGIES
 Songs of ourselves: writings by Filipino women in English, Editor Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz, Anvil
Publishing, 1994,

ACHIEVEMENTS:
 Lillian Jerome Thornton Award for Nonfiction
 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature
 National Book Award
 Sunthorn Phu Literary Awards
 Ani ng Dangal

LAKAMBINI SITOY
 Born in the Philippines in 1969
 Earn a degree in Biology from Silliman University
 She has an MA from Roskilde University, Denmark, in the fields of English Studies and Cultural
Encounters, both under the Department of Culture and Identity
 Also known as “Bing Sitoy”
 Sitoy also served as a lifestyle and cultural section editor and columnist for the Manila Times.
WORKS:
  “Sweet Haven” (2015)
 Mens Rea and other stories (a collection of nine short stories), © 1998 Anvil Publishing, Inc.
 Jungle Planet (a collection of 17 short stories) © 2005 University of the Philippines Press
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
 Armani” (translated) in Danish anthology of Southeast Asian short fiction
 Renata” and “Jungle Planet” in Manoa (winter 2004 edition titled “Jungle Planet” after Sitoy’s
story) , University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A
ACHIEVEMENTS:
 Longlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize, 2008 for novel "Sweethaven“
 David TK Wong Fellow for Fiction, 2003, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
 MCC National Book Award for Fiction, 1999 from The Manila Critics Circle for fiction collection
"Mens Rea and Other Stories" published in 1998 held at The Philippine Book Fair Mandaluyong,
Metro Manila September 12, 199
 Finalist in Fiction category, MCC National Book Awards, 2006 For fiction collection "Jungle Planet
and Other Stories," published by University of the Philippines Press in 2005
 NCCA Young Artists' Competitive Grant For Completion of 12 Short Stories with a One-Year
Period Awarded by National Commission for Culture and the Arts 633 General Luna Street,
Intramuros, Manila, Philippines
 Chosen as Member, 3-person Board of Judges, Story for Children Category, Don Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for Literature 2002 Carlos Palanca Foundation, CPJ Building, 105 C. Palanca Jr.
St. Legaspi Village, Makati City 1229, Philippines Tel. no. 818-36-81 to 85 locals 31 and 24 Fax no.
817-40-45
 Nine-Time Awardee, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Carlos Palanca
Foundation, CPJ Building, 105 C. Palanca Jr. St. Legaspi Village, Makati City 1229, Philippines Tel.
no. 818-36-81 to 85 locals 31 and 24 Fax no. 817-40-45
LUALHATI BAUTISTA
 born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines on December 2, 1945
 Parents: Esteban Bautista and Gloria Torres.
 She graduated from Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in 1958
 from Torres High School in 1962 being one of the brightest in her class.
 journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but dropped out because she has always
wanted to be a writer and schoolwork was robbing her of precious time to pursue her dream.
 Her first short story, Katugon ng Damdamin, was published in Liwayway Magazine and thus
started her writing career.

WORKS:
Books
 Bulaklak sa City Jail
 Dekada '70
 Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa?
 ‘GAPÔ
 Sixty in the City
 In Sisterhood
 Sonata
 Hinugot sa Tadyang (non-fiction)
  Buwan, Buwan, Hulugan Mo Ako ng Sundang: Dalawang Dekada ng Maiikling Kuwento
 Desaparesidos
Novelettes
 Sila At Ang Gabi: Isang Buong Laot at Kalahati ng Daigdig (1994)
 Ang Babae sa Basag na Salamin (1994)
 Araw ng mga Puso
 Apat Na Screenplay
 Ang Kabilang Panig ng Bakod
 Hugot sa Sinapupunan
 Desisyon
 Sumakay tayo sa buwan
Screenplays
 Sakada (Co-writer)
 Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap
 Bulaklak sa City Jail
 Kadenang Bulaklak
 The Maricris Sioson Story
 Nena
 Bata, Bata...Pa'no Ka Ginawa?: The Screenplay
 Dekada '70
 Gusto Ko Nang Lumigaya "Screenplay"
 Sex Object
 Isang Kabanata sa Libro ng Buhay ni Leilani Cruzaldo (Television drama)
Television Scripts
 Dear Teacher (Co-writer)
 Daga sa Timba ng Tubig
 Mama
 Pira-pirasong Pangarap
 Desaparesidos (1998)

ACHIEVEMENTS:
 Gapo (1980), Dekada '70 (1983), and Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka Ginawa? (1984): First place, Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards para sa Literatura.
 Best story, best screenplay mula sa Metro Manila Film Festival, Film Academy Awards
 finalist sa best screenplay ang ilan sa kanyang mga gawa sa Star Awards at FAMAS.
 best drama story sa telebisyon ng Catholic Mass Media Awards.
 Marso 10, 2004 ng Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALIWW) sa kanilang 8th Annual Lecture
on Vernacular Literature by Women.

ROSARIO CRUZ LUCERO

 Is an author of short stories, personal essays, and scholarly articles.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards

 the Philippines Free Press Literary Award
 the Nick Joaquin Literary Award
  Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Gantimpalang Ani.
 National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Writer's Prize for a third collection of short
stories, entitled 'Island of the Disappeared'.
 Fulbright Visiting Professor twice, a Ford Foundation Country Scholar for Southeast Asian
Literature
 British Council Center scholar to Oxford University
 writer-in-residence in Lavigny, Switzerland.

WORKS:
 Feast of Famine: Stories of Negros
 Ang Bayan sa Labas ng Maynila
 La India or Island of the Disappeared
 Herstory
 Dulaang Hiligaynon
 Sugilanon: Mga Piling Maikling Kuwentong Hiligaynon

ALEX DELOS SANTOS

 Born on September 24, 1967 in San Jose, Antique
 A Karay-a writer and theater artist based in San Jose, Antique
 He completed his Master of Education with an academic excellence award from the University
of the Philippines in the Visayas
 His research and writing interests are in culture and arts and gay literature

WORKS:
 The Rise of Kinaray-a: A History and Anthology of Contemporary Literature in Antique
 Poetry collections
 “Dandansoy: Mga Kanta kang Pagbiya kag iban pa nga Panghayhay”
 Mga Kanta ni Datu Lubay
 Agi, agi may putay sa dahi
 A collection of gay stories
 Ugsad kang Kiniray-a
 Essays on Kinaray-a language and literature

AS A THEATER ARTIST
Significant Works

 Hiniraya (2001) – dance-drama

 Tres Mujeres (2002) – trilogy which represented Antique province in the Duag Teatrokon
Regional Theater Festival at Iloilo City in 2002
 He also organized the Hiraya Theater Company that staged the komedya “Kasanag batok sa
sugal” presented in the National Komedya Fiesta at UP Diliman on February 15, 2008
 Since 2005, he is the festival director of Antique’s annual Binirayan Festival celebrated in the
third weekend of April, and the Karay-a Arts Festival, which he initiated in Antique in October
2007.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
 His first recognition as a poet came in 1992 when he was awarded the CCP Literature Grant in
Kinaray-a poetry for his collection “Dandansoy: Mga Kanta kang Pagbiya kag iban pa nga
Pangayhay”
 He won Homelife Magazine’s National Poetry Prize in 1994 for his poem “Child” (English
category, third prize), in 1995 for “Prusisyon” (Filipino category, third), in 2001 for “Macrame”
(English category, second), and in 2008 for “Kurbata” (Filipino category, first)

JOHN BARRIOS

 He is a writer, teacher, iskolar ng wika and artist.

 Akeanon Writer
 Writes also in Hiligaynon, English and Filipino
 U.P Diliman-PhD in Filipino-Panitikan
 Komisyoner sa Wikang Hiligaynon sa Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino Chair, Division of Professional
Education,
 CAS, U.P. Visayas

WORKS:

LOCAL HISTORY AND LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES:

 The Revolution in Aklan, Engkant(aw)o at iba pang Maikling Kuwento

 Selebrasyon at Lamentasyon:Antolohiya ng Maikling Kuwento sa Panay
 Bigkas Binalaybay: Kritisismo at Antolohiya

POEMS:

 Lapida
 Betamax sa Simbahan
 Damgo ni Pericles
 The Mosquito
 Si Lola sa Opining Day

ACHIEVEMENTS:

 Cultural Center of the Philippines

 Literary Grant for Short Story (1995)
 National Commission for Culture and the Arts Ubod Series for Short Stories (2005)
>Metro Manila Cultural Commission Professorial Chair Lecture (2006)
 Writing Grant (2007)
 Metro Manila Cultural Commission Professorial Chair Lecture (2008).
GENEVIEVE ASENJO

 associate professor of literature and creative writing at the Dept. of Literature

 writes in three major Philippine languages as a poet, fictionist, and novelist and author of six
books
> taga-uma@manila (NCCA, 2005)
> Pula ang Kulay ng Text Message (University of San Agustin Press, 2006)
>Komposo ni Dandansoy (UST Press, 2007)
>Lumbay ng Dila (C&E/DLSU, 2010)
> Mabaskog nga Hiligaynon 1 (C&E Publishing, 2013)
>Sa Gihapon, Palangga, ang Uran/Always, Beloved, The Rain (Ateneo de Naga Press, 2014)

ACHIEVEMENTS:

 She was an Honorary Writing Fellow in the International Writing Program of the University of
Iowa in 2012
 Overseas Writing Fellow in Seoul, South Korea in 2009.
 received awards from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
 National Commission for Culture and the Arts
 Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino.
 She founded Balay Sugidanun and a founding-member of a writerʼs group, Taftique, Inc.

WORKS:

 “Bomba”, One-Act Play. Staged during DuLaSalle 2018, Rights Minus Wrong, by the Harlequin
Theater Guild, William Shaw Theater, De La Salle University-Manila, April 4-7, 2018.
 “Ang Felicidad Project”. Short Story. (2017)
 “Pangangamusta Mula sa Balaan Bukid”. Short Story. (2015)
 “At Paglaway sa Balat ng Kahoy na Inyam.” Excerpt of the Novel Ang Itim na Orkidyas ng Isla
Boracay. Published in ‘Bien! A Festschrift in Honor of National Artist Bienvenido L. Lumbera.
David Jonathan Bayot, Jaime Oscar Salazar, and Johann Vladimir Espiritu (eds). 2015.
 Sa Gihapon, Palangga, ang Uran/Always, Beloved, the Rain, a collection of poetry in Kinaray-a
with English translation by Ma. Milagros Lachica (Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2014)
>Citation/Recognition: Finalist, 2014 National Book Award, National Book Development Board
(NBDB) of the Philippines Selected for Exhibition & Presentation during the Cultural Partnership
Initiative (CPI) Program 10th Year Anniversary at the K-Hotel Seoul, October 26-31, 2015, Seoul,
South Korea.
 Lumbay ng Dila. Novel. (2010)
> Citation for Excellence in Fiction in a Philippine Language, Juan C. Laya Prize, National Book
Award 2011. Manila Critics Circle & National Book Development Board (NBDB) of the
Philippines.

GEMINO ABAD

 Born in Manila (Feb. 05, 1939)

 He earned his B.A. English from the University of the Philippines in 1964
 Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1970.
  Works in University of the Philippines:
>as Secretary of the University
> Secretary of the Board of Regents
>Vice President for Academic Affairs
>Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing.
>For many years, he also taught English, comparative literature and creative writing at U.P.
Diliman.
 co-founded the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC)
 currently sits on the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing
 teaches creative writing as Emeritus University Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, U.P.
Diliman.

WORKS:

Poetry

 Fugitive Emphasis, 1973

 Poems and Parables, 1988
 In Ordinary Time: Poems, Parables, Poetics, 2004

Poems and Critical Essays

 In Another Light, 1976

 The Space Between, 1985
 Father and Daughter, 1996

Poetry and Fiction (in the same book)

 A Makeshift Sun, 2001

 "Care of Light: New Poems and Found", 2010

Fiction and Essays (in the same book)

 Orion’s Belt and Other Writings, 1996

Literary Criticism

 A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry, 1978

 Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry, 2004

Creative Non-fiction

 State of Play (essays), 1990

Historical Anthologies

 Man of Earth: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 1905 to the mid-‘50s (co-edited with Edna
Z. Manlapaz), 1989
 A Native Clearing: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English Since the ‘50s to the Present, 1993
 A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, ‘60s to the ‘90s, 1999
Anthology

 The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English, 1998

ACHIEVEMENTS:

 University Professorship, University of the Philippines

 Carlos P. Romulo Professorial Chair, University of the Philippines
 Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair in Creative Writing, Ateneo de Manila University
 Rockefeller Fellowship, University of Chicago
 Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
 Visiting Professor, Saint Norbert College, Wisconsin
 Visiting Professor, Singapore Management University
 International Writing Program Fellowship, University of Iowa
 British Council Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
 U.P. Outstanding Faculty Award
 U.P. Distinguished Alumnus in Literature
 Ellen F. Fajardo Foundation Grant for Excellence in Teaching
 U.P. Gawad Chancellor Best Literary Work
 Palanca Awards for Poetry
 Philippines Free Press Awards for Literature
 Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Poetry
 National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle
 Asian Catholic Publishers Inc. Catholic Authors Award
 Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (UMPIL)
 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan in Literature from the City of Manila
 Premio Feronia, Foreign Author, 2009