J. Neil Garcia

J. Neil Carmelo Garcia is a Filipino writer, professor, and cultural critic. He is currently a professor of English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman and is known for his works on queer studies and gay culture in the Philippines.

Education

Garcia has authored several poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism.
In 1996, Garcia was the recipient of a Philippine National Book Award, winning Best in Literary Criticism for his work on Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years.
He is currently a professor of English, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the College of Arts and Letters at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he also serves as a fellow for poetry of Likhaan, also known as the UP Institute of Creative Writing. He has also previously served as the director of the University of the Philippines Press.

Garcia is gay.

British Council Fellowship Grant to Cambridge
British Academy Fellowship
Taipei International Artist-in-Residence
Visiting ICOPHIL Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands
Procyon Poetry Prize
National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle
Palanca Awards for Literature
Philippines Free Press Literary Awards for Poetry
U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Artist,
U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Work,
U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Research
U.P. Gawad Chancellor as Artist of the Year
Outstanding Thomasian Writers Award
29th National Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete
U.P. National Writers' Workshop