Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

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As the president celebrated his first anniversary in office, Filipinos took stock of the damage.

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Press Coverage

20 LGBTQ Filipino Americans to Celebrate During Pride Month, Huffington Post, 2017

After Alex Tizon’s Piece, Other Voices from the Fil-Am Diaspora, Esquire PH, 2017

The Laurel Fantauzzo Phenomenon, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2017

A Spectrum of Voices, Philippine Star, 2017

Yale-NUS Screentests, 2015

17 Incredible Lesbian Pinays You Need to Know, Buzzfeed, 2015

Harriet McKnight Interviews Laurel Fantauzzo, The Mascara Literary Review, 2015

Non-Belonging and Eternal Adaptation: An Interview with Laurel Fantauzzo, by Nita Noveno, Sunday Salon, NYC, 2015

The Multicultural Wordsmith, by AC Martin, Feist Magazine, Issue 1, 2013

Laurel Fantauzzo, Caught in Between: Profile by Kristine Estioko, The Guidon, 2013

Laurel’s Jolli Meals, Interview by Becki Chiasson, Quarterlette, 2012

City of Literature Documentary: The History of Creative Writing in Iowa City, 2012

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Honors and Awards

PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Award Finalist, 2016

Crab Orchard Review Creative Nonfiction Award, 2016

Erasmus Guest Lecturer, University of Sibiu, Romania, 2015

Money For Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grantee, 2014

Featured Writer, Melbourne Writers Festival, 2014

Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, 2014

WriCE: The Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program, 2014

Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature, 2013

Iowa Arts Fellowship, 2010-2012

Obermann Graduate Fellow, 2013

Philippine American Press Club Award, 2012 and 2014

Stanley Award, 2012

Fulbright Scholar, Philippines, 2011

Astraea Lesbian Emerging Writers Award, 2010

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It’s all right if you don’t quite know why you’re doing this. There are some vague terms at work here: connection, identity, hunger, longing— innumerable, un-graspable etceteras.

My essay for the literary magazine LEAP Plus.

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‘I am of both countries, and I feel sanctuary in neither’

In the face of state-sanctioned violence and a campaign rhetoric of racist dictatorship, a Filipino-American author stumbles into a stunned silence, as old fears return from two countries she calls home.

My essay on the political landscapes I observe in the Philippines and the United States.

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Grace Talusan’s 6 New Books From Diverse Voices

A generous writeup for THE FIRST IMPULSE from Grace Talusan for Vela.

Laurel Fantauzzo’s nonfiction debut, The First Impulse, explores Nika and Alexis’s love story, their last days, and what came after. Film critics Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc fell in love long distance: Nika was in Slovenia and Alexis was in the Philippines. Alexis wanted Nika to join him in Manila. He published an open letter to her in Rogue magazine, writing, “The first impulse of any good film critic, and to this I think you would agree, must be of love.”

In January 2009, Nika joined Alexis in the Philippines. Nine months later, they were murdered in their home. The case is still unsolved. Considering that upwards of 3,500 people have died in extra-judicial killings since July, theirs is just one in thousands of unsolved murders.

Like Alexis, Fantauzzo is mixed-race Filipino, grew up in North America and, as an adult, chose to live in the Philippines. She writes about the difficulties of writing this story, both internal and external. She notes that, “My silence was born from my fear of my name appearing on someone’s merciless list.” What answers she’s able to uncover are as compelling as the many questions she poses, including “What story does a human body carry?”

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A love story and a mystery in Metro Manila.

CNN Philippines published an excerpt from my upcoming book. Thanks to editors Anna Margarita V. Bueno & Don Jaucian.

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Student journalist Paola Mardo, from the University of Southern California, interviewed me and other Filipino Americans on the ramifications of the American and Philippine 2016 elections.

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My essay for Rogue on the killings in Orlando, on how violence becomes all too personal, on how I grope for how to grieve.

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The New Strongman of Manila

I asked a police officer, “Should I be scared?”

My postcard from Metro Manila on the 2016 Philippines elections.

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Batanes carabao rib, 2012

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Story & Narration by Laurel Fantauzzo Produced by Alexa Lim Creative Catalyst: Sharon Panelo

Back in 2008 or so I met a group of Asian American women who inspired me with their creativity, their work ethic, and their penchant for eating and laughing. Eight years later, two of them asked me for a short essay they might turn into an audio piece. Here is the result.

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At the 2016 Pen Literary Awards Ceremony

Hossannah Asuncion and Gina Apostol.

Andrea Morrison and Petra Magno.

Mia Alvar and Rick Barot.

Ariel Lewiton.

At the ceremony.

(Photos by Beowulf Sheehan, Aslan Habib Chalon, and Petra Magno)

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The Filipina literati of NYC. And me. (Clockwise from my dumb face: Laurel Fantauzzo, Mia Alvar, the one and only Gina Apostol)

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This is a good team.

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This post is for my Forms of Nonfiction students at Yale-NUS College. I attended the 2016 AWP Conference and promised I would go on a syllabus scavenger hunt, taking photos of or with as many writers from our course as I could. This is a small sampling of the writers we read, but it was a fun search, and the writers were quite gracious about my request for photos.

Clockwise from top: Rajiv Mohabir, Lucas Mann, Kerry Howley, Maggie Nelson, and John D’Agata.