GUEVARA, Nerisa D.

GUEVARA, Nerisa D.

Academic Qualifications

Research Highlights

Research Interests

Academic Qualifications

Degrees

  • Master of Arts in Creative Writing, University of the Philippines – Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, 2004
  • Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Philippines, 1993

Research Highlights

  

Research Interests

  • Art Appreciation
  • Asian Art
  • Creative Writing
  • Elegies
  • Literature
  • Poetry
  • Performance Art

Performance Highlights

Performance Highlights

Courses Handled

Major Recognitions

Professional Activities

Courses Handled

Undergraduate Level

  • Art Appreciation
  • Art, Man, and Society
  • Asian Art
  • Creative Writing
  • Introduction to Poetry
  • Jewels of Asian Literature
  • Literary Types and Forms
  • Poetry Workshop

Major Recognitions

  • 2018 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award – Finalist, COMSTOCK REVIEW, New York, USA
  • 2006 The New Generation of Filipino Women Writers ALIWW, Ateneo de Manila University
  • 5th Madrigal Gonzalez First Book Award, Likhaan U.P. Institute of Creative Writing – Finalist
  • 2005 National Book Awards for Poems 2005 – Finalist, 27th Catholic Mass Media Awards (Best Secular Album – Special Citation)
  • 2004 22nd Pyongyang DPRK April Spring Art Friendship Festival, Pyongyang, North Korea (Silver Cup in Dance Solo) 
  • 1999 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature 1999 (Poetry in English Category)
  • 1994 Thomasian Poet of the Year and First Runner-up Rector’s Award, USTETIKA, University of Santo Tomas, Manila

Professional Activities

  • International Performance Artist and Writer
  • Board Member, Tao Foundation for Culture and Arts
  • Member, Philippine Center of International PEN
  • Member, Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators
  • Member, Northeast Modern Language Association

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

  • Poem: “The Uncommon Becoming Looking Back” in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 52, March/April 2020
  • Poem: “Because Somewhere It is Winter” FALL / WINTER ISSUE 2018, COMSTOCK REVIEW, New York, USA, 2018 (Finalist – Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award)
  • Poem: “Here is the Story, Here is the Stone”, WRITING THE PHILIPPINES CHA: An Asian Literary Journal, Hongkong, June 2018
  • Short Story: “The Venus Fly Trap”, WRITING SINGAPORE CHA: An Asian Literary Journal, Hongkong, September 2018
  • Poem: “The Archangel Gunita” TOMAS, 2018-2019
  • Poem: “How the Moon and Stars Came to Be” TOMAS, 2018-2019
  • Poem: “The Poet Looks at Herself in a Mirror” TOMAS, 2018-2019
  • Reaching Destination – Poems and The Search for Home UST Publishing House, 2004