Luis H. Francia

Luis H. Francia is a poet, journalist, and nonfiction writer. His poetry books include The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems and Museum of Absences. He is the author of Memories of Overdevelopment: Reviews and Essays of Two Decades; the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English; and co-editor, with Eric Gamalinda, of Flippin’: Filipinos on America, and of Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999, with Angel Velasco Shaw. The Beauty of Ghosts, poetry for the theater, premiered in 2007. He writes a monthly online column, “The Artist Abroad,” for Manila’s Daily Inquirer. Born and raised in Manila, he lives in New York City and teaches at New York University.