Mark Anthony Cayanan is from the Philippines, where he teaches writing and literature at the Ateneo de Manila University. He edits the literary section of Kritika Kultura, a journal of literary/cultural and language studies. At present, he is working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His newer work has appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Drunken Boat, Verse Daily, and Fugue. A recent recipient of a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship through the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme, he is the author of the poetry book Narcissus (AdMU Press, 2011). [Read]