Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Poet; Associate Professor
Location	United States
Interests	Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction,Poetry Translations,Filipiniana, Bookbinding, Painting in Oil, Sushi, Lizards
Favorite movies	Cinema Paradiso, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, Sarabande, The Dead, Dead Poet's Society, Antonia's Line, Belle Epoque, Talk to Her,The English Patient,The Patient Gardener,Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag, Mababangong Bangungot/Perfumed Nightmare, Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Age of Innocence, Gandhi, Eros, All the Mornings of the World . . .
Favorite books	Magnificence & Other Stories (Estrella Alfon)Asunder (Susan Wood), Eat Quite Everything You See (Leslie Adrienne Miller),The Standing Wave (Gabriel Spera), Doubt (J.M. Hecht), Hoodlum Birds (Eugene Gloria), Andalusian Dawn (Nick Carbo), Zero Gravity (Eric Gamalinda), Bel Canto (Ann Patchett), Native Guard (Natasha Trethewey), Dancing in Odessa (Ilya Kaminsky), Miracle Fruit (Aimee Nezukumatathil),The Darker Fall (Rick Barot), Talinghaga ng Gana (Rebecca Anonuevo), Oh Angel (Gloria Mindock), Corruption (Camille Norton), Ledger (Susan Wheeler), Inferno (Dante), The Prodigal (Derek Walcott)

Oscillate my metallic sonatas with your plan for the Panama canal:

Water has many disguises for escape.