The Philippine Literature during 2000 up to the present. Contains the famous writers and their literary works during the new era.

5.  published writer of all sorts of genres (from serious poetry to
horror stories for adolescents to humorous essays to erotic
novel.) Her writing career started during her senior year in
high school. She did the writing, lay outing and publishing of
the spoof of her school's campus paper. She sold each copy for
P2.00 or $ 0.05 to her classmates.
 She took up BA Creative Writing (Filipino) in the University
of the Philippines while she worked as a waitress at night. She
graduated cum laude in 2002. She immediately signed up for
MA Filipino, major in Literature. She is very optimistic that
she will finish the course soon.
 Bebang became the youngest member of UMPIL or Unyon ng
mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas' Board of Directors in 2004-
2010. She also served as the president of Linangan sa Imahen,
Retorika at Anyo (LIRA) in 2007-2009. LIRA is the premiere
and the oldest organization of Filipino poets who write
primarily in the national language.
 She is the Executive Officer for Membership and
Documentation of Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society
(FILCOLS), an organization of authors and publishers that
helps fight for the economic rights of copyright holders.

9. Dean Francis Alfar
 a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of
speculative fiction. His work has published both in
his native Philippines and abroad, such as in
Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit, The Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror, The Apex Book of World SF
and the Exotic Gothic series.
His literary awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for Literature- including the
Grand Prize for Novel for Salamanca - as well as
the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards for
the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo:
Passion, and the Philippines Free Press Literary
Award.
He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic,
publishing the annual Philippine Speculative
Fiction series, as well as a comic book creator and a
blogger.

10.  is the author of two books of poetry, Pag-
aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay
(2006) and Isa Na Namang Pagtingala sa
Buwan (2005). His 2009 novel, Walong
Diwata ng Pagkahulog [Eight Muses of
the Fall], was longlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize and won the NCCA
Writer's Prize for the Novel. His works
have also received awards from the
Palanca, PBBY Salanga Writer's Prize,
Gawad Surian sa Tula and Gantimpalang
Collantes. His second novel, Sa Kasunod
ng 909, which won the 2011 KAL Gawad
Antonio M. Abad for Best Dissertation in
UP Diliman, will be published soon. He
was invited as writer in residence to the
2010 International Writing Program of
the University of Iowa. Samar teaches
Philippine Literature and Creative
Writing at Ateneo de Manila University
and is now the Director of the Ateneo
Institute of Literary Arts and Practices
(AILAP).

11.  Managing Editor and columnist of Filipinas,
the only monthly glossy magazine for the
Filipino American community circulated in all
fifty U.S. states. Before she moved to the San
Francisco Bay Area with her three children in
1988, she was a freelance journalist writing for
various publications in Manila. She was also
part of the pioneering team that conceptualized
and created Batibot, the acclaimed children's
educational TV show. A journalism graduate of
the University of the Philippines, Gemma has
had extensive experience writing for both
television and print. In the U.S., she worked for
more than ten years as an abstractor/editor for
a major electronic database publisher. Her
popular column, Slant, appears monthly in
Filipinas Magazine.

14. ISAGANI R. CRUZ

17.  Pangasinan poet, is the author of poetry collections Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from
Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles
(2007). Malagilion was recognized by the National Book Development Board and
Manila Critics Circle as Finalist for Best Book of Poetry in the 27th National Book
Award.
 Some of his poems in Pangasinan and English have appeared in local and international
print and web publications/anthologies and have been translated into several
languages. Villafania is one of the 11 outstanding Pangasinenses and recipient of the 1st
ASNA Award for Arts and Culture (Literature) during the first-ever Agew na
Pangasinan and 430th Foundation Day of Pangasinan in 2010. His new collection of
Pangasinan poetry (with translations in Filipino, English, and Spanish) entitled Pinabli
& Other Poems will be released in 2012.

18. Rosario Cruz-Lucero

20. RESIL B. MOJARES

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