John Iremil Teodoro

John Iremil Teodoro is a full professor at the Department of Literature of De La Salle University in Manila where he is also the director of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center. He is from San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, Philippines, and writes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama in Kinaray-a, Filipino, Hiligaynon, and English. An author of more than twenty books, his two collections of creative nonfiction in Filipino won the Philippine National Book Award from the Filipino Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board. His poems are published in Tomas, Plume Poetry, Qarrtsiluni, Poetry London, and Poets.org of the Academy of American Poets. He received the S.E.A. Write Award from the Kingdom of Thailand in 2019.