Life and Practice

Nerisa del Carmen Guevara is an Associate Professor at the University of Santo Tomas, where she teaches Creative Writing and is a Resident Fellow of the Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies. She is the author of Reaching Destination: Poems and the Search for Home (UST Publishing House, 2004). She was the recipient of the Carlos Palanca Award for Poetry in 1999. Her poetry has been featured in various international publications and anthologies, including Cha Asian Journal (Hong Kong, 2018); The Achieve Of, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English mid-90s to 2016 (Manila, 2018); The Comstock Review (New York, 2018); Tomas Journal (Manila, 2018, 2019); and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (Hong Kong, 2020), among others. Her performance art has been exhibited worldwide in PERFORMATURA (Manila), SIPA International Art Festival (Philippines), Biennale Jojga Equator V (Indonesia), LAPSody (Helsinki), and Grace Exhibition Space (New York), among others. Her performance pieces “Elegies” and “Infinite Gestures” are currently archived in The Live Art Digital Agency (London). She is currently the Early Career Researcher of GlobalGRACE WP4 and the Director of GlobalGRACE Ph AiR.