The Likhaan book of poetry and fiction 2000 / J. Neil C. Garcia, Charlson Ong, editors.

and Conversion and Other Fictions. Ong won the 2001 NVM Gonzalez Award for fiction for his story "Days of Darkness, White Nights."

Woman of Amkaw, which won the UP President's Award

J. NEIL C. GARCIA'S other books include Closet Quivers (1992), Our Lady of the Carnival (1996), Closet Queeries (1997), Slip/pages (1998) and the recently published The Sorrows of Water (2000). His ground-breaking study, Philippine Gay culture : the last 30 Years, was awarded a National Book Award in 1996. Together with Danton Remoto, he edits Ladlad, the definitive anthology-series of Philippine gay writing. Garcia currently teaches at the University of the Philippines (Diliman), where he serves as an associate for poetry at the Likhaan : UP Creative Writing Center, and where he is also finishing a Ph.D. in English Studies. For the UP Likhaan, he has edited two anthologies : The Likhaan Book of Phillipine Criticism (1992-1997), and The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction (1998). Garcia's latest book is Kaluluwa : New and Selected Poems, published in 2001 by the University of Santo Tomas Press. His fourth book of essays, Occasional Prose, will come out later in 2002. CHARLSON ONG is a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines Department of English and Comparative Literature, where he teaches a course in Creative Writing. He has won prizes at the Palanca Memorial Awards, Asiaweek, Philiipines Free Press, Graphic magazine, UP Creative Writing Center and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Ong has written three collections of short stories : Men of the East, which won the National Book Award