Joshua Bartolomé, a native Manileño, graduated from the Philippine High School for the Art’s creative writing program in 2003, after selfpublishing a book of 3 short screenplays at the age of 17. He has spent the past few years wandering from college to college, trying out different odd jobs and working part-time as a ghost writer for Filipino government agencies. In 2009, he became a member of the Calgary Slam Team and was sent to compete at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Victoria, BC. He is currently working on a shadow play based on Jorge Luis Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Animals, along with California-based painter and surrealist, Angelo Manzano.

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