Eric Gamalinda

Poet, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Eric Gamalinda was born and raised in Manila, the Philippines. He worked as an investigative journalist before immigrating to the United States in 1993. He is the author of numerous works of poetry and fiction, many first published in the Philippines. Gamalinda’s books of poetry include Lyrics from a Dead Language (1991); Zero Gravity (1999), which won an Asian American Literary Award and was an Alice James Books New York/New England Selection; and Amigo Warfare (2007). (Source)