August 10, 2013
Laurel Fantauzzo earned her MFA at the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, where she was an Arts Fellow. She won a 2012 Philippine American Press Club award, was a 2011 Fulbright Research Journalism scholar to the Philippines, and earned the 2010 Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Emerging Writers Award. She is currently teaching at Ateneo de Manila and is at work on her book, The First Impulse: Notes on Love, Film, and Death in the Philippines, on the lives and deaths of film journalists Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc.
Robin Hemley is the author of ten books of nonfiction and fiction including Reply All (2012), DO-OVER! In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments (2009) and Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness (1998) . In 2003, he published Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday where he explores thecontroversial discovery of the Tasaday in the Philippines. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pushcart Prize, among other awards. He was the director of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program from 2004-2013 and is presently the director of the Yale NUS Writing Program in Singapore.
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