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As the president celebrated his first anniversary in office, Filipinos took stock of the damage.
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
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
Front page! congrats beshie @laurel.fantauzzo! from your favorite non PC airport taxi. @nytimes: Opinion | Duterte, Year One https://nyti.ms/2uCSi2C Photo from @isalorenzomanila who still reads newspapers in print #LaurenFantauzzo #Dutertopia http://ift.tt/2tL7XA1
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
My essay for Rogue on the killings in Orlando, on how violence becomes all too personal, on how I grope for how to grieve.
I asked a police officer, “Should I be scared?”
My postcard from Metro Manila on the 2016 Philippines elections.
Batanes carabao rib, 2012
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.
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)
The Filipina literati of NYC. And me. (Clockwise from my dumb face: Laurel Fantauzzo, Mia Alvar, the one and only Gina Apostol)
This is a good team.
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.