Eric Gamalinda recently published The Descartes Highlands (Akashic Books, NY), his fifth novel and his first to be published in the US, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Prize. His poems, stories and essays have been anthologized in Manila Noir (Akashic Books), Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton), Structure & Surprise (Teachers & Writers Collaborative), Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World (Penguin), Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (Rutgers University Press), and Vestiges of War: The Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream (New York University Press), among others. He has been artist-in-residence at various institutions around the world, including The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy), The Corporation of Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony (USA), and most recently, Civitella Ranieri (Italy) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain).
Eric Gamalinda recently published The Descartes Highlands (Akashic Books, NY), his fifth novel and his first to be published in the US, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Prize. His poems, stories and essays have been anthologized in Manila Noir (Akashic Books), Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton), Structure & Surprise (Teachers & Writers Collaborative), Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World (Penguin), Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (Rutgers University Press), and Vestiges of War: The Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream (New York University Press), among others. He has been artist-in-residence at various institutions around the world, including The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy), The Corporation of Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony (USA), and most recently, Civitella Ranieri (Italy) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain).
