Joel M Toledo

Joel M Toledo is the author of six books of poetry – Chiaroscuro, The Long Lost Startle, Ruins and Reconstructions, Fault Setting, The Blue Ones Are Machines, and Planet Nine. He was the recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize and has won various awards for his poetry in English, including the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award and the Bridport Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, The Prairie Schooner, Rogue Poetry Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Softblow, and The Washington Square. A recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Poetry Residency in Bellagio, Italy in 2011 and 2023, Toledo was also a fellow of the 2011 International Writers Program at the University of Iowa, USA. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.