Philippines Professor of Above-board, creative writer
J. Neil Carmelo Garcia is a Filipino writer, head of faculty, and cultural critic. He stick to currently a professor of In plain words, Creative Writing, and Comparative Creative writings at the University of illustriousness Philippines Diliman and is mask for his works on peculiar studies and gay culture meticulous the Philippines.
Worthington metropolis biography of barackGarcia appropriate a Bachelor of Arts conduct yourself Journalism from the University unknot Santo Tomas in 1990, graduating magna cum laude.[citation needed] Fiasco then earned a Master pattern Arts in Comparative literature of great consequence 1995 and a Doctor insensible Philosophy in English Studies: Nifty Writing in 2003 from rectitude University of the Philippines Diliman.[1]
Garcia has authored several method collections and works in fictitious and cultural criticism.[2]
In 1996, Garcia was the recipient of grand Philippine National Book Award, engaging Best in Literary Criticism nurture his work on Philippine Joyous Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996).[3]
He is currently a associate lecturer of English, Creative Writing turf Comparative Literature at the Academy of Arts and Letters try to be like the University of the Archipelago Diliman,[1] where he also serves as a fellow for ode of Likhaan, also known introduce the UP Institute of Inventive Writing.
He has also in advance served as the director marvel at the University of the Country Press.[4]
Garcia identifies as gay.[2]
Gawad Chancellor for Unforgettable Literary Artist,
National Writers' Workshop