Paolo Manalo is a Filipino poet who teaches at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines. For a time he served as the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press. Jolography, his first book of poems, which received the 1st prize in poetry from the 2002 Palanca Awards and the 2004 U.P. Gawad Chancellor Para sa Natatanging Likha ng Sining (Outstanding Literary Work). He also earned his Ph.D. creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Paolo Manalo
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: San Juan, Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
Studios
Banks
Paolo Manalo worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…