Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership

Dinah Roma-Sianturi is an associate professor of literature and the director of the De La Salle University’s Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (Manila). Her first collection of poetry A Feast Of Origins (2004) received the National Book Award from the Manila Critics’ Circle while her recent work Geographies Of Light (2007) won a Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. Her second collection will be released early next year. Her works have been published in literary journals in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, U.S., and Australia. Aside from her creative works, Roma-Sianturi is also an established scholar of Japanese Studies.