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Education
- University of Illinois - Chicago,
1995
- Major: English/Creative Writing
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Ateneo de Manila University,
1988
- Major: Literature
- Degree: M.A.
- University of the Philippines College Baguio,
1980
- Major: Humanities, Comparative Literature, English, and Philosophy
- Degree: B.A.
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Research Interests
- Creative Writing; Poetry; Nonfiction; Contemporary American Poetry; Asian American Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Women
Writers; Filipino and Filipino American Literature
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Expertise
- Asia
- Poetry, Creative Writing, Nonfiction, Filipino, Filipino American Literature, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial/diasporic
literature
- Asian American Literature
- Poetry, Creative Writing, Nonfiction, Filipino, Filipino American Literature, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial/diasporic
literature
- Creative Writing
- Poetry, Creative Writing, Nonfiction, Filipino, Filipino American Literature, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial/diasporic
literature
- Filipino American Literature
- Poetry, Creative Writing, Nonfiction, Filipino, Filipino American Literature, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial/diasporic
literature
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Books
- Igloria, L. A. (2009). Juan Luna’s Revolver. University of Notre Dame Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (2005). Trill & Mordent. WordTech Editions.
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora, as central editor. Anvi.
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Turnings: Writing on Women’s Transformations. Friends of Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University.
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Blood Sacrifice. University of the Philippines Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Songs for the Beginning of the Millennium. De La Salle University Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (1995). In the Garden of the Three Islands. Moyer Bell/Asphodel.
- Igloria, L. A. (1994). Assembling Bodies of Filipino Experience. ArtManila.
- Igloria, L. A. (1993). Encanto. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (1992). Cartography. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (1990). Cordillera Tales. New Day.
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Book Chapters
- Igloria, L. A. (2009). Cooking Berenjena,The Kitchen Girl’s Journal, and La Americana - in Not a Muse: A Global Poetry Anthology on the Inner Lives
of Women.. Haven Books.
- Igloria, L. A. (2009). Little Islands. In the Eden Waters Press Anthology.
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Food for the Soul - in A Taste of Home. (pp. Edgar Maranan and Len Maranan-Goldstein). Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Hill Station - in Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond.. W. W. Norton & Co..
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). The Gift. In the special chapbook issue “Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe,” anti-poetry.
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Orchises - in Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv.. Red Hen Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Somnambula - in Home.. Eden Waters Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (2005). The Oral Tradition: Or, The Oracle Admonishes the President Though it Might Really be Too Late - In Truth and Consequence:
An Anthology of Poems for the Removal of [Philippine.. Manila: Alliance of Concerned Teachers, and Congress of Teachers for Nationalism and Democracy.
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). Group Picture with Two-Seater Plane - in Father Poems.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). Lost Photograph - in Red, White, and Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America.. Indiana University Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). Rings - in 100 Love Poems.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). Chinatown, Moon Festival; Longing- in Going Home to a Landscape.. Calyx.
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). Edible Hours, in Comfort Food.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). Some Poems I Love. In Seven Times Ten: World Poetry Choices by Seven Filipino Poets.. Libris Books.
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). Jungle Book in Eros Pinoy: An Anthology of Contemporary Erotica in Philippine Art and Poetry.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). Looking North. In Writing Home: Nineteen Writers Remember Their Hometowns.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). Rings”; Homily in Love Gathers All: The Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry.. Manila and Singapore: Anvil Press and Ethos Books.
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). Views of War and Citizenship from Between Two Shores. In To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11. Human Rights Series.. White Pine Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Blended in BigCityLit Ten Year Anniversary Anthology.. New York: Asian American Writers Workshop.
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Woman of the North/Mujer del Norte; Autobiography/Autobiografia; Purple Yam/Batata Morada” in Lo Ultimo de Filpinas: Antologia
Poetica.. Madrid: Huerga y Fierro Editores.
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Mangosteen; Ancestral Home; Soup and Coffee, Poetry and Love in Feasts and Feats: Festschrift for Doreen G. Fernandez.. Ateneo de Manila.
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Sometimes and Again, A Stranger. In Pinay: Autobiographical Essays by Filipino Women Writers 1978-1998.. Ateneo de Manila University Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Song of the Turning Body; Looking Back; Bulan a Naraniag/O Radiant Moon; Dagiti Sarsarita ni Uncle Pete/The Stories of Uncle
Pete. In Babaylan: Prose and Poetry by Filipina and Filipina American Writers. (pp. Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios). aunt lute.
- Igloria, L. A. (1999). The Secret Language; Legend; Encanto; Familiar; From the Islands; Journey to Luna; Simoom; Postcard from Persephone; Manchachawak;
Filipino American Barbie; Confession; Ransom; The Other Annunciation; and Reading Botticelli. In A Habit of Shores: Filipino
Poetry and Verse from English, 60s to the 90s.. University of the Philippines Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). American Beauty Roses; The Book of Exile in Flippin: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by Filipinos in America.. New York: Asian American Writers Workshop.
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Woman from the North. In Sa Ngalan ng Ina: 100 Taon ng Tulang Feminista sa Pilipinas [In the Name of the Mother: One Hundred
Years of Feminist Poetry in the Philippines].. University of the Philippines Press.
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Mountain Magic. In Kasaysayan (a 10-volume Cultural History of the Philippines).
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of Asian American Poetry.. Kaya.
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). Returning a Borrowed Language.. CoffeeHouse.
- Igloria, L. A. (1995). Songs of Ourselves: An Anthology of Filipino Women’s Poetry.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (1993). Sansho-en: In the Garden of the Three Islands; Vendor of Sweets in Kung Ibig Mo [If You Desire]: An Anthology of Filipino
Women’s Poetry.. Anvil.
- Igloria, L. A. (1992). Forbidden Fruit: Women Write the Erotic.. Anvil.
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Articles
- Igloria, L. A. (2009). The Gods Must Be Crazy. The Humor Issue of poemeleon
- Igloria, L. A. (2009). “Apocalypse Redux. 5thwednesday Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (2009). The Wives of Chang and Eng and Garment. The Poet’s Picturebook
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). E-mail to the Tender Committee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Umbrella journal
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Fear Factor. Umbrella journal
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Mangkik. The Poet’s Picturebook
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Ziggurats there aren’t here, my darlings. HerMark 2009
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Christopher Reeve’s Filipino Nurse and Yo Yu. Sweet
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). What to Do With Suitors in the Courtyard. Persona Poem Issue of poemeleon
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). What We Ate After Passing the Cape of Eleven Thousand Virgins. Water Issue of qarrtsiluni
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Journey to the West and The Minim. Natural Bridge
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Thinking in Sepia. Poetry East
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). What She Wants Most of All. Hawk and Handsaw
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Paradise. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Aubade and Irreversibles. Poetry Salzburg Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2008). Invocation, Presence, Riddle, Grace. Seventh Quarry
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). The Clear Bones. Bellingham Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Benison, Meridian, Lyrica Obscura. Shearsman
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Carmine, Alizarine, Madder, Getting There, Gecko, Bird and Pearl Earring, Decanter. The Online Journal for Poetries by Women
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). I Have a Crush on an Italian Tenor. Poetry East
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Intimacy deserves a closer look. Indiana Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Communion, Carne Norte Sundays. “Come Together” issue. Crab Orchard Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). The Legend of Yamashita’s Treasure. Spoon River Poetry Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Circle of Cranes. Rattle
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Confessions of a Would-be Yogi. PRISM International: Contemporary Writing from Canada and Around the World
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Perfectibility. Poetry East
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Venom. North American Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Descent. Poetry Flash
- Igloria, L. A. (2007). Marine Layer. Comstock Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2006). Worth. HerMark 2007 art and poetry calendar and datebook, WomanMade Gallery
- Igloria, L. A. (2006). Rice. Crab Orchard Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2006). Kierkegaard’s Fable. words+image
- Igloria, L. A. (2006). Wanting and Sediment. Smartish Pace
- Igloria, L. A. (2006). Dolorosa, Bypass, Rainy Day, Your Hand in My Side. Crab Orchard Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2005). Horizon Note. Rattle
- Igloria, L. A. (2005). Blur. Columbia Poetry Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2005). Gecko; Meditation at the Beginning of the Year. Dislocate
- Igloria, L. A. (2005). Stairway to Heaven; If the poem were glass. Poetry East
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). 22 June/The Amber Room, Yekaterinsky dvorets, Tsarkovoe Seloe. Switched-on Gutenberg: Postcards/Wish You Were Here issue
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). What You Remember. Crab Orchard Review: Wander this World – Migration, Immigration and Exile
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). Mandorla; Field planted to winter grass; The Return; Trill and Mordent. The Missouri Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). The Birdcage Maker. Fugue
- Igloria, L. A. (2004). In the Blood; Wounds. Smartish Pace
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). “More Fun than a Turkey Shoot. In screaming monkeys. CoffeeHouse
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). The Summer Carnival. New Letters
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). Grass; Mother Liquor; and Jungian Dream Therapy. Our Own Voice (9),
- Igloria, L. A. (2003). Manifestations. Crab Orchard Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). From the Journals of Malakas and Maganda. Interlope (8),
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). South. Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). Castle Walk, Hawthornden. The Indiana Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2002). Tree of Watchfulness. Runes
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Autobiography. DisOrient
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). When We First. Smartish Pace (5),
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Two Memories of Fire. Columbia: A Journal of Art and Poetry
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Wedding Night. The North American Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Fireworks, Harborfest. Poetry Daily
- Igloria, L. A. (2001). Cuauhtemoc; Note to her Translator; Fireworks, Harborfest; Goldwasser. Poetry
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Radicalizing the Image: The Philippine Feminine in Poetry. Journey of a Hundred Years,. PAWWA
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Paper Lotus; Electric Storm; Intima; Kierkegaard’s Fable. Blue Mesa Review
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Watching the Tango Queen; Video Nights, with Electric Glide. In The Literary Review: Have Come, Am Here.
- Igloria, L. A. (2000). Learning Ambahan. Crab Orchard Review
- Igloria, L. A. (1999). Chicago’s PINTIG. In Fil-Am: The Filipino American Experience. Publico
- Igloria, L. A. (1999). Profile of the poet Carlos Angeles. Filipino and Filipino American Studies at Old Dominion University;
- Igloria, L. A. (1999). Disclaimers. In : The Muse Bytes Back (special section on cyberpoetry). Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (1999). Ties. Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (1998). Tag-araw. De La Salle University
- Igloria, L. A. (1998). Poetry as Map and Itinerary. LIKHA
- Igloria, L. A. (1998). City of Poetry. Poetry
- Igloria, L. A. (1998). Dialogue with the Body. In Hayden’s Ferry Review. Arizona State University
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Reading Botticelli. Poetry
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Pen & Ink, I (1),
- Igloria, L. A. (1997). Translations in the Wilderness. MUAE 2
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). Caracoa: Heroes and History.
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). Ransom; Firstborn.. TriQuarterly
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). Darna and the Flying Machine. The Evening Paper
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). 50 Years Down this River (special feature for 50th anniversary of Philippine Independence from American colonial rule). The Evening Paper
- Igloria, L. A. (1996). Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (1995). New Writing from the Philippines. Philippine Studies
- Igloria, L. A. (1995). Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (1995). Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (1994). SPAN
- Igloria, L. A. (1994). “Encanto” in Ruptures. Literary Journal of the Three Americas
- Igloria, L. A. (1994). Eduardo Masferre and the Philippine Cordillera. Philippine Studies
- Igloria, L. A. (1994). Asian Pacific American Journal
- Igloria, L. A. (1993). Bomb.
- Igloria, L. A. (1991). The Review of Women’s Studies, I, 2,
- Igloria, L. A. (1991). Ani, V (1),
- Igloria, L. A. (1991). Exploring Ethnicity. Solidaridad
- Igloria, L. A. (1990). Black Warrior Review
- Igloria, L. A. (1987). Black Warrior Review
- Igloria, L. A. (1986). New Writing from the Philippines. Philippine Studies
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Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
- Featured reader
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: 2009 Poetry Society of Virginia Annual Poetry Festival and Conference
- Location: Norge, VA
- Featured reader
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Newburyport Literary Festival
- Featured reader
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Eastern Illinois University
- Featured reader, 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize Series in Poetry
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Eck Visitors’ Center, University of Notre Dame
- Featured reader, the reading series at Molly Malone’s hosted by Nina Corwin and Al DeGenova
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Forest Park, IL
- Featured reader, The Poetry Center at the Residential College for Arts and Humanities
- Type: Nonfiction - Book
- Location: Michigan State University
- Featured reader, HerMark 2009 Book Launch and Poetry Reading
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: WomanMade Gallery
- Location: Chicago
- Featured reader and speaker, Conference on Creativit
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: the New School at UA and the UA Library System
- Location: the Gorgas Library, University of Alabama
- Featured poetry reader, Writers on Writing on Thursdays Series
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Hampton Library (Main), Hampton, VA
- Featured poetry reader
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: College of William & Mary, Great Hall, Wren Building
- Featured poetry reader at the Asian American Literary Caravan
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: Asian American Writers’ Workshop (NY) and the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
- Location: Assembly Room 122, Social Science Building, University of Chicago
- Featured poetry reader at ”Moving Archipelago”, Conference on Filipino and Filipino American Literature to commemorate the
100th Anniversary of Filipino migration to the US
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: SPCA Conference Center, Woolworth Building, New York University
- With Jose Edmundo O. Reyes for the Powow River Poets Series
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: the Newburyport Art Association
- Location: Newburyport Art Gallery, Massachusetts
- Paintings of Words
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA
- Ecstatic Ekphrastic
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA
- Creative Writing Series with Barbara Jane Reyes
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur College
- Location: Belmont, California
- Always Better Served Hot: Coffee and Poetry with novelist Carlene (Kalifa) Bonnivier and Editor/Publisher Reme Grefalda
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: Jay’s Shaved Ice and Hawaiian Coffee
- Location: Timonium (Lutherville), MD
- Poetry Reading and Author’s Talk
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Chesapeake Bay Academy Festival of the Book
- Poetry Reading and Book Launching for Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005)
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Broad Street Books, 21st St., Norfolk
- Crossings
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: the 2005 ODU Literary Festival
- Filipino Writing in the Diaspora
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Long Beach Museum of Fine Art
- Book release reading
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Virginia Beach
- Featured poet and reader, Pacific Time
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: KQED Radio
- Location: San Francisco
- Transcending Nostalgia: Filipino Writings in Diaspora
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: San Francisco Public Library
- Going Home to a Landscape Book Release reading
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Borders Bookstore, Milpitas, California
- Going Home to a Landscape. Book Release reading
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Asian American Activities Center, Stanford University
- Speaker and Featured Reader
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: Annual Meeting of the Poetry Society of Virginia
- Location: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Mothers and Daughters: A Poetry Reading
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Hampton Roads Women’s Fair, Virginia Beach Pavilion
- A New World
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: the 2000 ODU Literary Festival
- The Spirit of the Word
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: the 1999 ODU Literary Festival
- Electric Voice: Coming of Age
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: the 1998 ODU Literary Festival
- Writing Lives
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Café by the Ruins, Baguio City
- Kapihan Reading Series
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center
- Poetry Reading with Sesshu Foster
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Artsbridge/The Writers Guild Complex, Chicago
- Scenes from an unfinished country 1905/1995
- Type: Theatre - Write play
- Name of Performing Group: PINTIG Cultural Group
- Location: Greenview Arts Centre, Chicago
- Poetry Reading with Maureen Seaton
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago
- Woman as Culture reading series; featured with Denise Duhamel
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
- Female Express: Celebrating Women in the Arts
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: Woman Made Gallery
- Location: American Blues Theatre, Chicago
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Ad-infinitum Bookstore, Chicago
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
- YMCA Writers Voice Project in Chicago; featured reader, with Reginald Gibbons
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Duncan YMCA, Chicago
- Release reading for Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry ed. Walter K. Lew
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: AAASP annual conference
- Location: Park Outland Hotel, Oakland, California
- First Filipino Graduate Studies Symposium, Ethnic Studies and English Departments
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: University of California at Berkeley
- Presentation and Reading, “Voices from the East”
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: A City of Chicago Asian American Heritage Month Program
- Location: Harold Washington Library, Chicago
- The Hothouse: Earth Day Event
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Chicago Guild Complex and Artsbridge, Chicago
- Riksha Magazine benefit
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: ROK Café, Chicago
- Three Women and a Guitar
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Legato Bookstore
- Featured Poet -Ateneo de Manila University Reading Series
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Ateneo de Manila University
- Poetry reading - Poetics and Politics of the Body
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Name of Performing Group: with Matsuye Yamada and other Asian American poets
- Location: University of California at Santa Barbara
- Featured Poet, Third World Voices Series
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
- Release reading for Brown River, White Ocean
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Name of Performing Group: with Luis Francia
- Location: East/West Gallery, FineArts Building, Chicago; Humanities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Katutubong Yaman [Indigenous Heritage]: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Dance
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Filipino American Council of Chicago and PINTIG
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Sponsor: Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
- Location: De La Salle University, Manila
- Type: Poetry - Book
- Location: Hyatt Wagoner House, Brown University
