In Conversation Contributing Writer
Filipinx
First Language(s): Cebuano Binisaya
Second Language(s):
English, Tagalog-based Filipino
Alton Melvar “Sam” M Dapanas (they/them), a native of southern Philippines, is the author of Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021) and In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays (Canada: forthcoming). Their lyric essay has been nominated to the Pushcart Prize and their prose poem was selected for The Best Asian Poetry. A contributor to Tint Journal, their latest poems, essays, and translation have appeared in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, Oxford Anthology of Translation, Sant Jordi USA Festival of Books, and the University of Alabama Press anthology Infinite Constellations. Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine, they’re editor-at-large at Asymptote, assistant nonfiction editor at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature and Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine. Find more at /samdapanas.
Interview
Six Questions with Masande Ngcali Ntshanga: On Post-Apartheid Literature, the Afrofuturist Novel, and Publishing in South Africa
June 19th, 2023
Interview
Five Questions with Shawn Hoo: On Singaporean English, Writings from Asia’s Queer Mecca, and Ecopoetry
October 3rd, 2022
Interview
Varying On Points, Skirting All Canons: Hideko Sueoka on Poetry-as-Sound and the Japanese Anglophone Poet
September 11th, 2023
Interview
Four Questions with Therese Estacion: On Speculative Poetry, Writing with/about Disability, and Filipino-Canadian Literature
May 16th, 2022
Interview
Four Questions with Nzube Nlebedim: On Nigerian Fiction, Queer Afrophone Writings, and the Future of African Literary Magazines
April 10th, 2023
Review
The Loyalties We Flaunt, The Betrayals We Conceal — A Review of "This Fish Is Fowl" by Xu Xi
December 21st, 2021
Review
The Ministress of the Political Essay — A Review of Arundhati Roy’s "Azadi"
August 22nd, 2022
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