Founded Exploding Galaxies, a new publishing house based in Manila that focuses on out-of-print titles of Philippine fiction.
Wrote my first novel Aliasing (2018), edited by Stewart Home and published by Book Works.
Part of the anthology Tools for Extinction (2020), edited by Denise Rose Hansen and published by Lolli Editions, alongside writers Enrique Vila-Matas, Jon Fosse, and Olga Ravn.
Contributed to Clinton Palanca’s book My Angkong’s Noodles (2014) a Filipino-Chinese cookbook published by Elizabeth Gokongwei.
Co-founded the review publication The Manila Review (2011-2013) with Leloy Claudio.
Based in Manila, Philippines.
Exploding Galaxies
A new publishing house based in Manila, Exploding Galaxies rediscovers lost classics of Philippine fiction. We launched our first title, Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s But for the Lovers in paperback in June 2023.
Considered a long lost Filipino classic, Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s novel But for the Lovers finally comes home to the Philippines more than 50 years after its initial publication in the United States in 1970 with the new Philippine edition by Exploding Galaxies.
“Exploding Galaxies’ Philippine edition marks the triumphant, albeit posthumous, return of this prodigiously gifted native who has given his name to a vital period of literary experimentation and political ferment in the 1960s and continues to inspire generations of writers, Filipino and otherwise.” — Caroline Hau
Aliasing
Aliasing was published by London-based arts organization Book Works in 2018 as part of the Semina series. Stewart Home edited and commissioned Aliasing as the last book of Semina, “where the novel has a nervous breakdown”. The book was designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio.
Witch, whore, witch, whore, witch whore, witch whore,
witch whore, witch whore/ Wicky’s witch in graveyards / climbing coconut trees, in only three seconds / when she’s caught looking for
the bones of unblessed souls or chickens for her store.