Eric Valles (b. 1968)
BIOGRAPHY
Eric Tinsay Valles (b. Manila, Philippines) obtained undergraduate graduate and post-graduate degrees from Ateneo de Manila, the University of the Philippines and Nanyang Technological University respectively. He has worked as an editor, journalist and teacher in Manila, Taipei and Singapore.
Eric has published two poetry collections, A World in Transit (2011) and After the Fall: dirges among ruins (2014), for which he was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and which is being published in Spanish translation by Dendro Ediciones in South America in 2024. He has co-edited eight anthologies, Get Lucky (2015), SG Poems 2015-2016 (2016), Anima Methodi (2018), The Nature of Poetry (2019), The Atelier of Healing (2021), A Given Grace (2021), Finding God in All Things (2022) and Get Luckier (2022). He has won the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition Prize as well as the Illumination, ELit and Living Now Book Awards. His poems have appeared in Routledge’s New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Straits Times, the Hispanic Culture Review, Jet Fuel Review, Reflecting on the Merlion, & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond, Under the Storm Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry and the Southeast Asian Review of English.
Eric’s critical work is featured in The Creativity Market: Creative Writing in the 21st Century, Writing Diaspora and The Asiatic. Valles has read poetry or commentaries at Baylor, Melbourne and Oxford Universities as well as at Kistrech Poetry Festival and Jakarta Content Week. Valles is a director of Poetry Festival Singapore. He writes about the migrant experience and personal trauma, reflective of life in this “valley of tears,” with humor and empathy.
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