Luisa Igloria (previously published as
Maria Luisa A. Carino) is the author of six books, four of which received
the National Book Award from the Manila Critics’ Circle: Blood
Sacrifice (University of the Philippines Press, 1998); Encanto (Anvil, 1994); Cartography (Anvil, 1992); and Cordillera
Tales (New Day, 1990). She is also the author of In the Garden
of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995), and the editor
of Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora (Anvil,
2003). Her seventh and most recent book is Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005), a runner-up for the 2004 Editions Prize.
Igloria’s work has appeared in numerous national and international
journals; she has received prestigious honors that include the 2004
Fugue Poetry Award, Finalist for the 2004 Larry Levis Editors Prize
for Poetry, and Finalist for the 2003 Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). She
has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Hawthornden
Castle in Scotland, and to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg,
Russia. Igloria is an associate professor on the faculty of ODU’s
Creative Writing Program.
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