Joel Toledo

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Joel M. Toledo (born 1972) is a poet, fictionist, critic, and journalist based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. He has been granted residencies by the Rockefeller Foundation[1] in Bellagio, Italy, and the International Writing Program (IWP)[2] in Iowa, United States.

Early life and education mag-edit

He grew up in the town of Silang, Cavite.[3] He holds a master’s degree in poetry from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, where he also finished two undergraduate degrees (creative writing and journalism).[4][5]

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Poetry mag-edit

  • The Blue Ones Are Machines, (2017, Vagabond Press, Australia)[6]
  • Fault Setting (2016, University of the Philippines Press)[7]
  • Ruins and reconstructions (2011, Anvil Publishing)[8]
  • The Long Lost Startle (2009,University of the Philippines Press)[9]
  • Chiaroscuro (2008, University of Santo Tomas Press)[4]

Fiction mag-edit

  • Pedro and the Lifeforce (1997, Giraffe Books)[10][11]

Anthologies mag-edit

  • Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry (Co-editor, 2011, Antithesis Collective)[12]
  • Caracoa 2006 (2006, Co-Editor)[13][14]

Awards, prizes, and fellowships mag-edit

  • 2006 2nd and 3rd Prize Winner, Bridport Prize for Poetry Dorset, UK[15][16]
  • 2011 International Writing Program Fellowship, Iowa, US[2]
  • 2011 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Writing Residency (Poetry), Bellagio, Italy[1]
  • 2005-2006 Philippine National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Writers Prize Recipient[17]
  • First Prize, 2005 Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Poetry in English (What Little I Know of Luminosity)[18]
  • Second Prize, 2004 Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Poetry in English (Literature and Other Poems)[18]
  • 2006 Meritage Press Award for Poetry[19]

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