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The Thomasian Poet in Contemporary Philippine Literature

But aside from her considerable production as a poet, dramatist,…

CCWLS Nat’l. Writers’ Workshop 2016 features 12 young writers; Kilates, Nadera are guest panelists

The UST for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (UST CCWLS) conducted the…

Asst. Prof. Benedict B. Parfan, MFA

Department of Literature | Research Center on Culture, Arts, and the Humanities | Publishing House

nedparfan@gmail.com | bbparfan@ust.edu.ph

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Academic Qualifications

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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Philippines

Research Highlights

“Orbits of Obsession: Notes on the Philippine Lyric Sequence in English”
“Diction and Contradiction in the Poems of Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta”
“The Faults of Memory: Writing the Lyric Sequences in The Murmur Asylum”

Research Interests

Philippine Poetry in English
Lyric Sequence

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Major Recognitions

Finalist, Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award, 2015
Finalist, Gemino H. Abad Prize for Poetry (UP Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs), 2016
Outstanding Thesis for MFA Creative Writing (De La Salle University), 2013
Finalist, Maningning Miclat Awards for Poetry (Maningning Miclat Foundation), 2009, 2011

Professional Activities

Deputy Director, UST Publishing House
Resident Fellow, UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies

Selected Publications

“From Epistles, Part 2” (Kritika Kultura, 2018)
“Selections from The Murmur Asylum” in The Achieve of, The Mastery: An Anthology of Philippine Poetry and Verse from English, mid-‘90s to 2016, edited by Gemino H. Abad and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (UP Press, 2018)
“By the Fisherman’s Grief” in Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry, edited by Rina Garcia Chua (USTPH, 2017)
The Murmur Asylum (UP Press, 2014)
Tilt Me and I Bend (UP Press, 2017)
“Three Poems” (Kritika Kultura, 2014)
“Poems from Tilt Me and I Bend” (Tomás, 2015)
“From Epistles” (Likhaan, 2017)
“Antarctica” (Tomás, 2017)

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