Luis Francia (Department of Fine Arts) Luis H. Francia, former heights editor-in-chief, is a Palanca prize winner in poetry and is based in New York. His latest volume of poetry is Tattered Boat (2014). His nonfiction works include a memoir Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, winner of both the 2002 pen Open Book Award and the 2002 Asian American Writers Award. His most recent collection of essays RE: Reviews, Recollections, Reflections (2015) won the 2016 National Book Award for the best collection of essays in English. He has edited or co-edited three anthologies of essays, poetry, and fiction, including Flippin’: Filipinos on America. He is included in the Library of America’s Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. He was the New York stringer for Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review (both now defunct) and wrote as well for the independent New York weekly The Village Voice. He writes an online column “The Artist Abroad” for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He is on faculty at the Asian American Studies program at both Hunter College and New York University, and recently was Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at his alma mater, Ateneo de Manila University, and Writer in Residence at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou City. Corinne Victoria F. Garcia (5 BFA Information Design) Coco is an artist whose personal goal is to not feel embarrassed about introducing herself as one. Through her artworks, she seeks to record, question, and respond to what is often perceived as social convention. As such, her art has an impassioned and recurring focus on women’s issues and experiences, mostly expressed through photography and more experimental medium. Her recent works can be found on cocoexisting.tumblr.com.
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