Danton Remoto

Danton Remoto was educated at Miami University and Rutgers University in the United States, University of Stirling in the United Kingdom, and Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines. He has worked as Head of School and Full Professor at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, as Head of Communications at the United Nations Development Programme, as President and Dean of Journalism at the Manila Times College, and as Head of Research and TV-radio host at TV 5 and Radio 5. His work has been cited in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, and The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures. He has attended the Cambridge Summer Seminar on Contemporary Literature, the Hawthornden Castle International Fellowship for Writers, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the MacDowell Arts Residency. His earlier publications with Penguin SEA include the novels Riverrun and Boys’ Love, as well as The Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales. He also translated into English the Tagalog novels of Lope K. Santos and National Artist Amado V. Hernandez. He divides his time between southeast Asia and the United States.