Fear of Memory
(available at Eric's YouTube page)

Eric Gamalinda was born in Manila, the Philippines, and currently resides in New York City. Awards and grants for his writing and film include the Cultural Center of the Philippines Independent Film and Video Awards [2004], the Asian American Literary Award for Zero Gravity [poems, 2000], the New York Foundation for the Arts [fiction, 1998], the Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for My Sad Republic [novel, 1998], the National Book Award, Manila, for Planet Waves [novel, 1990], and a number of Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for fiction, poetry, essay and playwriting in the Philippines.

Publications: Amigo Warfare [WordTech Communications], Zero Gravity [Alice James Books], Lyrics from a Dead Language [Anvil, Manila], poems; My Sad Republic [University of the Philippines Press], Empire of Memory, Confessions of a Volcano [both Anvil Publishers, Manila], Planet Waves [New Day, Manila], novels; Peripheral Vision [New Day], short stories; Flippin': Filipinos on America, anthology [Asian American Writers Workshop, co-edited with Luis Francia]. Stories published in Harper's Magazine and anthologized in Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World [Penguin]; Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing [Rutgers University Press]; Juncture: New Experimental Writing [Soft Skull]; In My Life: Encounters with the Beatles [Fromm International]; Balikbayan: Racconti filippini contemporanei [Feltrinelli, Milan]. Poems anthologized in Poetry Daily [Sourcebooks Inc.], Sweet Jesus [The Anthology Press]; Returning a Borrowed Tongue [Coffee House Press]; Brown River, White Ocean [Rutgers University Press]; Lo Ultimo de Filipinas: Antologia Poetica [Huerga y Fierro, Madrid]. Essays anthologized in Vestiges of War: The Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream [New York University Press, 2003]; Pinoy Poetics [Meritage Press, 2004]. Film credits: Front Towards Enemy; Simultaneous Knower of the Three Times; Vera's Room; On the Nature of Aliens; Delirium [short films, producer/director]; Call It a Day [text for short film; Jason da Silva, producer/director].

Publications director of the Asian American Writers Workshop until 1997, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999, and Visiting Scholar at New York University's Asia Pacific American Studies Program in 2002-2003. He has also taught at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and Rutgers University. Artist-in-residence at Association d'Art de La Napoule [France], Chateau de Lavigny Residence pour Ecrivains [Switzerland], Fundacion Valparaiso [Spain], The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio [Italy], Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers [Scotland], and The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ledig House International Writers' Colony [US].