The Philippines
The Philippines
Mark Anthony Cayanan (they/them) is based out of Angeles City, Philippines. They are an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Their poetry books are Narcissus (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2011), Except you enthrall me (U of the Philippines P, 2013), and, most recently, Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous, which was published in Australia by Giramondo in 2021 and in the Philippines by the U of Santo Tomas Pub House in 2024. Their fourth poetry book, Miracle Fever, is forthcoming from Northwestern UP in 2026. Poems have appeared in, among others, Kenyon Review, Bennington Review, Indiana Review, and Australian Poetry Journal. A former Fellow of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, they obtained an MFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a PhD from the University of Adelaide, where they received the 2021 Doctoral Research Medal.
