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Mark Adrian C. Ho

Associate Lecturer

Educational Background
AB in English
Simon Fraser University, Canada

MFA in Creative Writing
De La Salle University, Philippines

Mark Adrian Crisostomo Ho is a former television writer for GMA-7 and TV5 and now teaches Literature, Art Appreciation, and Creative Writing at De La Salle University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Simon Fraser University and completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at DLSU. He is a Palanca awardee and fellow in the UST, IYAS, and UP National Writers Workshops. His essays, poems, fiction, and plays have appeared in Rappler, Tomas, Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry, Narito: Essays on Place, Philippines Graphic, Montage, Unitas, The Sunday Times, and Santelmo. Some of his plays have also been featured in the Virgin Labfest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He is an Associate for Drama at DLSU’s Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center and a panelist in the IYAS National Writers Workshop. His poetry collection, ANX: Poems (UST Publishing House, 2020), won the 2022 National Artist Cirilo F. Bautista Award for the Best First Book in the Humanities. His one-act play, “Run, Marga, Run” won the 2024 Gawad Bienvenido Lumbera Grand Prize in the One-Act Play in Filipino category.

Research Interest

  • Creative Writing: Poetry
  • Playwriting
  • Literary Studies
  • Theater and Performance Studies
  • Media Studies
  • Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction

Selected Publications

  • ANX: Poems. UST Publishing House, 2020.
  • “Probing the Poet ChatGPT: Notes on Poetry and AI,” Santelmo, San Anselmo Publications, Inc., 2023, 130-140.
  • “Is the Nation Still Imagined? Re-imagining the Filipino in the Age of Facebook in Joselito Delos Reyes’ iStatus Nation,” Unitas 92.2, 2019, 50-71.
  • “Billboard,” Tomas 2(11), University of Santo Tomas Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies, 2017, 103-127.
  • “Hero’s Guard,” Philippines Graphic 25 (34), Philippine Graphic Publications, Inc., 2015, 38-41.