IAN ROSALES CASOCOT
					Ian Rosales Casocot was born in Dumaguete City in 1975, and studied in the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and in Silliman University, where he graduated with a Bachelor in Mass Communication degree. He was a fellow for fiction at the national summer writers’ workshops in Dumaguete, Cebu, and Iligan. He is currently working on a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Silliman. He has won two Palanca Awards and an NVM Gonzalez Prize for his fiction, and was chosen as one of the authors for the UBOD New Writers Series 2003 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. In 2002, he edited FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures, which was nominated as Best Anthology in the National Book Awards given by the Manila Critics Circle. His short stories and essays have been published in The Sunday Times, Sands and Coral, Dapitan, Tomas, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer, SunStar Bacolod, and MetroPost. He writes a weekly column, “The Spy in the Sandwich,” for StarLife Magazine of the Visayan Daily Star, and maintains A Survey of Philippine Literature, the comprehensive website resource on Filipino writings and literary criticism. AUTHOR WEBSITE WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR IN THE ARCHIVE The Hero of the Snore Tango Old Movies How to Look at an Email Bride Sighing Hope of Love in an Internet Cafe