Sam Dapanas

In Conversation Contributing Writer

Filipinx

First Language(s): Cebuano Binisaya
Second Language(s): English, Tagalog-based Filipino

Bio

Sam Dapanas (Alton Melvar M Dapanas) (they/them) is a queer essayist, poet, and translator from the southern Philippines. Author of three books of prose-poems and lyric essays including M of the Southern Downpours (Australia: Downingfield Press, 2024), their works have been published from South Africa to Japan, France to Singapore, and translated into Chinese, Damiá, German, and Swedish. Their writings and translations have appeared in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sant Jordi Festival of Books, Wasafiri, and the anthologies Infinite Constellations (University of Alabama Press) and He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems (Macmillan UK). Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine, they have been nominated twice to the Pushcart Prize for their lyric essays. Find more at https://linktr.ee/samdapanas.