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Eileen R. Tabios

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Ilocos Sur, Philippines

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female

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is an award-winning Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher.

Born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Tabios moved to the United States at the age of ten. She holds a B.A. in political science from Barnard College and an M.B.A. in economics and international business from New York University Graduate School of Business. Her last corporate career was involved with international project finance. She began to write poetry in 1995.

Tabios has released eighteen print, four electronic, one CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, a novel, and a short story book. Tabios has created a body of work melding transcolonialism...more Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is an award-winning Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher.

Born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Tabios moved to the United States at the age of ten. She holds a B.A. in political science from Barnard College and an M.B.A. in economics and international business from New York University Graduate School of Business. Her last corporate career was involved with international project finance. She began to write poetry in 1995.

Tabios has released eighteen print, four electronic, one CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, a novel, and a short story book. Tabios has created a body of work melding transcolonialism with ekphrasis. Inventor of the poetic form called "hay(na)ku," she has had her poems translated into Spanish, Tagalog, Japanese, Italian, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Modern Dance and Sculpture.

Tabios has edited or co-edited five books of poetry, fiction and essays released in the United States. She also founded and edits the poetry review journal, "GALATEA RESURRECTS, a Poetry Engagement".

She is the founder of Meritage Press, a multidisciplinary literary and arts press based in St. Helena, California.

In addition to recipient of the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry, her poetry and editing projects have also received numerous awards including the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, The Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award in the Advancement of Human Rights, Foreword Magazine Anthology of the Year Award, Poet Magazine's Iva Mary Williams Poetry Award, Judds Hill's Annual Poetry Prize and the Philippine American Writers & Artists’ Catalagan Award; recognition from the Academy of American Poets, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association and the PEN/Open Book Committee; as well as grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, the New York State Council on the Humanities, the California Council for the Humanities, and the New York City Downtown Cultural Council.(less)

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Books by Eileen R. Tabios

Average rating: 4.27 · 125 ratings · 10 reviews · 20 distinct works

	I Take Thee, English, for My Beloved 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers by Eileen R. Tabios (Editor), Nick Carbo (Editor) 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Reflections of the Empty Flagpole 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Black Lightning by Eileen R. Tabios, Asian American Writers' Workshop 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes: Our Autobiography: Poetry 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Me&#X301;Nage A&#X300; Trois With The 21st Century 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings	My rating:
	The Singers and Others 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Secret Lives Of Punctuations, Vol. I 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	Post Bling Bling 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Thorn Rosary: Selected Prose Poems, 1998-2010 by Eileen R. Tabios, Thomas Fink (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating: