Creative nonfiction; poetry; diasporic literature

Luis Francia
Adjunct Professor
Education
- 1965 B.A. in Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University
Hunter College (Adjunct Faculty); Vermont Center for Fine Arts MFA Program (writing faculty)
Fellowships/Honors
- 2017 Writer-in-Residence, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
- 2014 Knights of Rizal Award for Achievements in Arts and Literature. New York.
- 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Filipino-American National Historical Society. New York.
- 2006 Individual Artist Grant for Poetry. Queens Council of the Arts. New York.
- 2003 Research Grant, Asian Cultural Council
- 2002 PEN Open Book Award
- 2002 Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award
- 2000 Writing Fellowship, Fundacíon Valparaiso/Beckett Foundation
- 1992 Writing Fellowship, Edna St. Vincent Millay Arts Colony
- 1988 Writer-in-Residence, Asian Cine-Vision
- 1986 Writer-in-Residence, Center for American Culture Studies at Columbia University
- 1985 Translation Grant, New York State Council for the Arts
- 1978 First Prize in Poetry for Palanca Literary Memorial Awards
Poetry
Tattered Boat. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2014.
The Beauty of Ghosts. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010.
Introduction to José Garcia Villa/Doveglion: Collected Poems. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008.
Museum of Absences. Quezon City & San Francisco: University of the Philippines Press and Meritage Press, 2004.
The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Office of Research and Publications, 1992. Reissued as an e-book by AdeMU Press.
Her Beauty Likes Me Well. Poems by myself and by David Friedman. Introduction by Richard Eberhart. New York: Petrarch Press, 1979.
Nonfiction
RE: Reviews, Reflections, Recollections. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2015. Winner, Best Book of Essays in English, 2016, National Book Awards, Manila.
A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. New York: Overlook Press, 2010. Second edition, 2014.
Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago. Semiautobiographical work combining reportage, travel diaries, and memoir, examining cultural hybridity and neo-colonialism, with the Philippines as both foreground and background. 382 pp. New York: Kaya Press, 2001. Winner, Pen Open Book and Asian American Writers Literary awards, 2002.
Memories of Overdevelopment: Reviews and Essays of Two Decades. A collection of previously published work. Manila: Anvil Press, 1998.
Contact Information
Luis Francia
Adjunct Professor Department of Social and Cultural Analysis20 Cooper Square
4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 992-8308