Paolo Manalo
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Paolo Manalo is a Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 poet who teaches at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines
University of the Philippines
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. For a time he served as the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press.

Jolography, his first book of poems, received the 1st prize in poetry from the 2002 Palanca Awards
2002 Palanca Awards
The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 2002 :-English Division:Novel*Grand Prize: Vicente Garcia Groyon, "The Sky Over Dimas"Short Story...

 and the 2004 U.P. Gawad Chancellor Para sa Natatanging Likha ng Sining (Outstanding Literary Work).

He is currently a Ph.D. student of creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...

 at the University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

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