R. Zamora Linmark
R. Zamora Linmark, born in Manila, is a Filipino American poet, novelist, and playwright. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. He is the recipient of a Japan-United States Friendship Commission, a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in poetry, and was a Fulbright Foundation Senior Lecturer/Researcher in the Philippines. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Hawaii and University of Miami. His works include Prime-Time Apparitions, The Evolution of a Sigh, Drive-By Vigils, Rolling the R’s, Leche, and The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart ; themes involving ethnic and sexual identity are common throughout.
Professional life
His first, a novel, Rolling the R's was released by Kaya Press in 1995. Linmark then went on to adapt it for the stage, receiving a world premiere production from Kumu Kahua in 2008.Hanging Loose Press published two of Linmark's poetry collections: Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh. Of his first collection of poems, Prime Time Apparitions, poet Mark Doty wrote: "...witty and disenchanted, sexy and touched, jangled with longing and the crazed changes the wild new world works." Both of his collections of poetry are available from Hanging Loose Press.