Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is a

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,Leny Strobel on Eileen Tabios
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, conceptual/visual

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, and

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Early life

Born in

Ilocos Sur Ilocos Sur, officially the Province of Ilocos Sur ( ilo, Probinsia ti Ilocos Sur; tl, Lalawigan ng Ilocos Sur), is a province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Located on the mouth of the Mestizo River is the capital o ...

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, Tabios moved to the

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at the age of ten. She earned a

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from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Col ...

in 1982 and an

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and international business from

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. Her last corporate career was involved with international project finance. Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry. Translated into nine languages, Tabios also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays, as well as exhibited visual art in the United States, Asia and Serbia. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies. Tabios also founded the literary and arts press, Meritage Press; the poetry review journals Galatea Resurrects and The Halo-Halo Review; and the art gallery North Fork Arts Projects.

Awards

In addition to receiving the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry, her poetry and editing projects have also received numerous awards including the

PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award is for U.S. multicultural writers, to "promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work. ...

, The Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award in the Advancement of Human Rights, Foreword Magazine Anthology of the Year Award, Poet Magazine's Iva Mary Williams Poetry Award, Judds Hill's Annual Poetry Prize and the Philippine American Writers & Artists’ Catalagan Award; recognition from the

Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York (state), New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetr ...

, the

Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), also known as the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association,Yamashita, Kenneth A.(2000), Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association— A History of APALA and Its Founders, Library Tr ...

and the

PEN/Open Book PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing i ...

Committee; as well as grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation,

National Endowment of the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

, the New York State Council on the Humanities, the California Council for the Humanities, and the New York City Downtown Cultural Council.

Bibliography

:''Each of the following is a poetry collection unless stated otherwise'' *''After the Egyptians Determined The Shape of the World is a Circle'' *''Black Lightning'' (poetry interviews/essays) *''Beyond Life Sentences'' *''The Anchored Angel'' (Jose Garcia Villa), As Editor *''BABAYLAN: FILIPINA WRITING'', As Editor (with Nick Carbo) *''Ecstatic Mutations'' (poems and poetics prose) *''My Romance'' (art essays with poems) *''Bridgeable Shores'' (Luis Cabalquinto), As Editor *''The Empty Flagpole'' (CD) *''Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole'' *''Screaming Monkeys'', As Editor (with

M. Evelina Galang M. Evelina Galang (born Harrisburg, PA in 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, editor, essayist, educator, and activist of Filipina descent. Her novel ''One Tribe'' won the AWP Novel of the Year Prize in 2004. Biography Maria ...

and others) *''Gravities of Center'' (Barbara Jane Reyes), As Editor *''Behind The Blue Canvas'' (short stories) *''Menage A Trois With the 21st Century'' *''The Estrus Gaze(s)'' *''Crucial Bliss Epilogues'' *''Songs of the Colon'' *''Enheduanna in the 21st Century'' *''FOOTNOTE POEMS: There, Where The Pages Would End'' *''I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED'' (multi-genre poetry) *''Pinoy Poetics'' (developed by Eileen Tabios; edited by Nick Carbo) *''Poems Form/From The Six Directions'' *''POST BLING BLING'' *''The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I'' *''The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (developed by Eileen Tabios; edited by Mark Young & Jean Vengua)'' *''The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. 2'' (developed by Eileen Tabios; edited by Mark Young & Jean Vengua) *''DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS'' *''It's Curtains'' *''SILENCES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOSS'' *''THE SINGER And Others'' *''The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes'' (multi-genre poetry) *''The Blind Chatelaine's Keys (biography with haybun)'' *''NOVEL CHATELAINE (novel)'' *''NOTA BENE EISWEIN'' *''THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT ANTHOLOGY'', As Curator (with Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman and Ernesto Priego) *''THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems & New 1998-2010'' (Edited with an Introduction by Thomas Fink; Afterword by Joi Barrios) *''SILK EGG: Collected Novels (2009-2009)'' *''the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA (with j/j hastain)'' *''5 Shades of Gray'' *''THE AWAKENING: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment'' *''147 MILLION ORPHANS (mmxi-mml)'' *''44 RESURRECTIONS'' *''SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems)'' *''I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS'' *''AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A Life in Poetry (1995-2015)'' *''DUENDE IN THE ALLEYS'' *''INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems and New (1996-2015)'' *''THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS'' *''Excavating the Filipino In Me'' *''The Gilded Age of Kickstarters'' *''I FORGOT ARS POETICA / AM UITAT ARTA POETICA'' *''AMNESIA: Somebody’s Memoir'' *''THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime’s Anti-Autobiography'' *''YOUR FATHER IS BALD: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems'' *''TO BE AN EMPIRE IS TO BURN!'' *''IMMIGRANT: Hay(na)ku & Other Poems In A New Land'' *''Love In A Time of Belligerence'' *''MANHATTAN: An Archaeology'' *''MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator'' *''HIRAETH: Tercets From the Last Archipelago'' *''TANKA: Vol. 1 *''ONE TWO THREE: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems'' *''THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry (2001-2019)'' *''Witness in the Convex Mirror'' *''The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets (1996-2019)'' *''PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora (short stories)'' *''INCULPATORY EVIDENCE: The Covid-19 Poems'' *''Political Love'' *''La Vie erotique de l’art'' *''DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (novel)'' *''Kapwa’s Novels (essays)'' *''Prises (Double-Take)'' *''Simmering'' *''Because I Love You, I Become War''

References

External links

Interview with Eileen Tabios
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabios, Eileen 1960 births Living people Filipino women writers Filipino emigrants to the United States American poets of Asian descent American magazine editors People from Ilocos Sur American writers of Filipino descent American women poets American women journalists Barnard College alumni New York University Stern School of Business alumni Women anthologists 21st-century American poets Women magazine editors 21st-century American women writers