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Marjorie Evasco-Pernia

Distinguished Full Professor

Educational Background
AB in English
Divine Word College of Tagbilaran, Philippines

MA in English
Silliman University, Philippines

PhD in Literature
De La Salle University, Philippines

Marjorie Evasco-Pernia is Professor Emeritus of literature at De La Salle University and a University Fellow. Her research interests include creative writing art practices & pedagogies, ecofeminist studies, translation, and Visayan literary studies focusing on Central Visayas and Mindanao. Her essay on “Listening” has been published in the A-Z of Creative Writing Methods (Research in Creative Writing) by Bloomsbury in 2023. She has also translated from Binisayang Bol-anon into English the collection of short stories of Manuel Avenido, Ikigai: Selected Short Stories (Advaux Press, 2023). She is the author of five poetry collections, the latest of which is It Is Time To Come Home: New and Collected Poems (2023). She also writes biographies of women, among them A Life Shaped by Music: Andrea O. Veneracion & the Philippine Madrigal Singers (2001) and Ani: The Life and Art of Hermogena Borja Lungay, Boholano Painter (2006). She heads a community engagement and creative writing practice research project titled Dagat Bohol: Kinabuhi ug Panginabuhi (Reciprocal Learning and Collaborative Writing Workshop between Master Artisanal Fishers and Young Writers in Selected Coastal Towns of Bohol (2023-2025). She finished her PhD degree in Literature at De La Salle University, Manila, and her MA degree in English (Creative Writing) at Silliman University, Dumaguete City.

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