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Gina Apostol, photo by Margarita Corporan

Gina Apostol

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department

English

Office

TBD

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TBD

Contact

Messages: 212.854.2116

Gina Apostol has written five novels, among them Insurrecto (named one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by Publishers Weekly) and her most recent, La Tercera (2023). She has been awarded the Rome Prize to write her sixth novel; the PEN/Open Book Award for Gun Dealers' Daughter; and two Philippine National Book Awards for The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata and Bibliolepsy, among other honors. She has received fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and Emily Harvey Foundation, among other residencies, and has served as writer-in-residence at Vassar College and Phillips Exeter Academy, among other institutions. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines.

Photo by Margarita Corporan

  • The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in the Writing Seminars

  • The University of the Philippines, A.B. English

  • La Tercera. New York: Soho Press, 2023.
  • Bibliolepsy. New York: Soho Press, 2022.
  • The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. New York: Soho Press, January 2021.
  • Insurrecto. New York: Soho Press, 2018.
  • Gun Dealers’ Daughter. New York: W.W. Norton, July 2012.
  • "A Speech of One's Own." Foreword in Ulirat: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines. New York: Gaudy Boy, 2021.
  • “The Unintended.” (Short Story). Go Home: 24 Journeys from Asian American Writers. Ed. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. New York: Feminist Press, 2017.
  • "Borges, Politics, and the Postcolonial." (Essay). Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013.
  • “Imeldific.” (Short Story). Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2007.
  • "Tita Beth." (Short Story). Gettysburg Review, Winter 2005.
  • “Cunanan’s Wake.” (Short Story). Charlie Chan is Dead: At Home in the World, Volume 2.  Ed. Jessica Hagedorn. New York: Penguin, 2004.
  •  “Fredo Avila.” (Short Story). Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing.  USA: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
  • “The Mistress.” (Short Story). Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writing. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press, 2000.
  • “Fredo Avila.” (Short Story). Balikbayan: Contemporanei storie filipini. Milan: Ossigene Press, 1999.