WILFREDO PASCUAL
Palanca Literary Prize, Essay in English and Filipino
Philippine Free Press Literary Award
Plaridel Award,
Filipino American Press Club
Curt Johnson Nonfiction Prize
Steinberg Essay Prize Runner-up
Notable, Best American Essays
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
FINALIST
2022 Narrative Prize Fall Story
2022 Wolfson Prose Prize
LITERARY PUBLICATIONS: Your Impossible Voice, Fourth Genre, December Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, Philippine Studies, Likhaan, Baguio Chronicle, Bicol Chronicle, Queer Southeast Asia, Bulawan, and the Cotabato Literary Journal.
"Talk to me about survival.
Tell me what the world means to you."
pascualwillisf@gmail.com
He is a multiple winner of the Palanca Literary Prize, commonly referred to as the Pulitzer of the Philippines. Born in 1967, Pascual grew up queer on a cattle ranch during the Marcos dictatorship. He moved to Thailand and later, to the United States where he continued working abroad for international nonprofits in Asia and Africa. Willi lives with his husband Jack in San Francisco where he is finishing a collection of his personal essays, The Shadow Master. While in Thailand, he traveled to the U.S. and attended writing workshops at New York University and the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley. He was also a Breadloaf Fellow for Nonfiction. He moved to the United States in 2005 and continued working for nonprofits. A program he led with local authors and artists in Asia and Africa won the 2013 UNESCO Confucius Literacy Prize for publishing hundreds of new original children's books in local languages.
Wilfredo Pascual writes personal essays in English and Filipino.
Wilfredo Pascual writes personal essays in English and Filipino. Born in 1967, Pascual grew up queer on a cattle ranch during the Marcos dictatorship. He moved to Thailand and later, to the United States where he continued working abroad for international nonprofits in Asia and Africa. Willi lives with his husband Jack in San Francisco where he is finishing a collection of his personal essays, The Shadow Master.
While in Thailand, he traveled to the U.S. and attended writing workshops at New York University and the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley. He was also a Breadloaf Fellow for Nonfiction. A program he led with local authors and artists in Asia and Africa won the 2013 UNESCO Confucius Literacy Prize for publishing hundreds of new original children's books in local languages.