Nick Carbó

Nick Carbó is the author of El Grupo McDonald's (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000), Andalusian Dawn (2004), and Chinese, Japanese, What are These? (2009). He is also the editor of the following anthologies of Filipino and Filipino-American literature: Returning A Borrowed Tongue (1995), co edited with Eileen Tabios Babaylan (2000), and Pinoy Poetics (2004). He grew up in Manila, a city saturated with American pop culture. He immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s and landed in the snowy campus of Bennington College, Vermont. He eventually graduated from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas where his poetry career began with the original "Pecan Grove Poets".^[1] In a NPR interview, Carbó tells reporter Lyn Millner how U.S. cultural icons helped shape his witty, often subversive point of view.^[2] In the PBS interview in the show, Heritage, he mentioned that among his influences are Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriella Mistral, Cecilia Vicuña, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jose Rizal, and Rafael Zulueta da Costa. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1997) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1999) and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), Convento Mertola (Portugal), Kunsterna Logies (Netherlands), Moulin a Nef (France), and Le Château de Lavigny Maison d' Ecrivains (Switzerland). ^[3] He has also been bestowed the Readers Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop. He has recently received an Authors League Fund grant (2017) and a PEN America Writers Emergency Fund grant (2018).

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