Net "Animalia" Your Impossible Voice, Fall 2015. A personal essay that gathers the author's most meaningful encounters with the animal kingdom in San Francisco, Thailand, and the Philippines. First Place, Essay, Philippine Free Press Literary Awards. "Lost and Bloodletting in Mount Kitchakut" Philippine Free Press, 2008. First Place, Essay. 2007 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. "Lost in Childrensville" Judge: Isagani Cruz First Place, Essay. 2004 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. "Devotion" Philippine Studies, Vol. 53, Nos. 2 and 3 After many years abroad, the author returns to his country to meet the woman whose art and life inspired him. A personal essay on fandom in the Philippines. Judge: Conrado de Quiros Other writings "Devotion 2" Kritika Kultura 25 (2015) Abstract: In 2004, the author spent a week with fans of Nora Aunor in New York during the Philippine Superstar's U.S. concert tour. This personal essay is a ruminative account of a wayfaring trip that began the year before when the author flew to Manila and met the star for the first time. It's a pilgrimage of sorts, tracking the wandering icon in Manhattan, from her hotel bedroom to Times Square all the way to the airport. It crosses time and space from aquatic Bicol and Atlantic City to mystical Byzantine times and the tumultuous years of the Marcos dictatorship. It grapples with symbols and stories, the faith and powers at work in the act of devotion; how, collectively, the fans mirror a nation's hopes for radical transformation, at home or elsewhere – a journey that ends with a stirring personal message from Nora Aunor. Ed. Joel David "Pintig at Panganib" Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature Vol. 9 (2015). A suite of four poems in Filipino set in Bangkok, Recto, Zanzibar, and San Francisco. Ed. Luna Sicat and Eugene Evasco "Inheritance" Esquire (Philippines) May 2015. A genetic portrait. Ed. Erwin Romulo and Sarge Lacuesta. "Wrestling with the Batibat" Mondo Marcos. 2010. Writings on Martial Law and the Marcos Babies (Ed. Frank Cimatu and Roland Tolentino) "A Filipino in the Charlie Brown Musical" Caracoa 2006. The Poetry Journal of the Philippine Literary Arts Council "Patotoo sa Pelikula ng Batang Nagpakasakit" Si Nora Aunor Sa Mga Noranian. 2005. Sanaysay. Mga Paggunita at Pagtatapat. Patnugot: Nestor de Guzman "Guns" Father Poems (Anvil Publishing, 2004). Ed. Alfred Yuson and Gemino Abad "Para Sa Iyo Na Trenta Anyos Na Nang Umibig" (1996); "Ang Binatang Hindi Dumudungaw