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Dinah T. Roma

Full Professor

Educational Background
AB in Literature and Marketing Management
De La Salle University, Philippines

MA in Comparative Culture
Kyoritsu Women’s University, Japan

PhD in Literature
De La Salle University, Philippines

Dinah Roma is University Fellow and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at De La Salle University Manila. She is the award-winning author of four books of poetry: A Feast of Origins (UST Publishing House, 2004); Geographies of Light (UST Publishing Hosue, 2011); Naming the Ruins (Vagabond Sydney, 2014); and We Shall Write Love Poems Again (UST Publishing House, 2021). She has won two National Book Awards for Poetry in English (2004 and 2021), a Carlos Palanca Award for Poetry in English (2007) and was a two-time recipient of the DLSU’s Febres Cordero Research Award for Outstanding Book in English in 2005 and 2015. In 2019, Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) conferred on her the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas—a lifetime achievement award. Roma has been the recipient of international fellowships for her scholarship. Her creative and critical works have been published in international and national anthologies and journals. Her book of essays, Weaving Basey: A Poet’s History of Home, which received the National Book Development Trust Fund Writing Grant for local history and culture in 2015 will be released soon.

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