Description: Eugene Gloria earned his B.A. from San Francisco State University, his M.A. from Miami University of Ohio, and his MFA from the University of Oregon.
Eugene Gloria is the author of four books of poems--Sightseer in This Killing City (Penguin Random House, 2019; winner of an Indiana Authors Award), My Favorite Warlord (Penguin, 2012; winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006), and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000; a National Poetry Series selection and recipient of an Asian American Literary Award). His honors include a Fulbright Research Grant, Pushcart Prize, Poetry Society of America award, and Fulbright Lectur
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“Empires crumble and the dust continues to contaminate the land, the air, our bodies, and our conscience. What a blessing to have Eugene Gloria help us reckon with the troubled histories that shape America, the Philippines, and every point in between. If the broken world had a musical score, it would thunder like the disquieting poems in Sightseer in This Killing City .“