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CONCHITINA CRUZ

"What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace"

Conchitina Cruz

Biography

A lot of writers can leave their readers speechless but no one does it like Conchitina Cruz.. Her modern and relatable tone is evident in the coming of age poem Exhibition Notes where she captured life’s varying milestones defined by age.

Personal Information

Personal Information

  • Conchitina “Chingbee” R. Cruz was born on June 15, 1975 in Manila, Philippines

  • She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.

Educational Background

  • A former INTARMED student, Cruz shifted to the University of the Philippines' Creative Writing program, from which she graduated magna cum laude and College of Arts and Letters valedictorian in 1998.

  • She studied and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA in Writing.

  • She received her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York (SUNY) Albany.

NOTABLE WORKS

There is no emergency

Dark Hours

Elsewhere Held and Lingered

  • 2008
  • Published by High Chair
  • 2015
  • Published by the Youth & Beauty Brigade.
  • 2005
  • Published by The University of the Philippines Press
  • Won the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry.

Notable Works

  • 2012
  • Published by the Youth & Beauty Brigade
  • 2005
  • Chapbook
  • Published by High Chair

A catalogue of clothes for sale from the closet of Christine Abella: perpetual student, ukay fan, and compulsive traveler

Disappear

Achievements, Awards and Recognitions

  • A recipient of Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation grants.

  • Cruz has won two Palanca Awards to date, one in 1996 for "Second Skin" and another in 2001 for "The Shortest Distance".

  • Her book Dark Hours won the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry.

Affiliations/Organizations

Affiliations / Organizations

  • Conchitina Cruz served as co-editor of High Chair 12, a three-part issue of the journal devoted to the Maguindanao Massacre of 2009

  • Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English

  • Together with a few other Manila-based writers, she runs a small press called the Youth & Beauty Brigade.

  • The youngest poet in the anthology, A Habit of Shores, the third part of Gémino H. Abad's three-volume collection of one hundred years of Philippine poetry and verse.

Citations

Resources

  • https://alchetron.com/Conchitina-Cruz

  • https://cup.columbia.edu/book/two-or-three-things-about-desire/9789629966133
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