Barbara Jane Reyes's Biography

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of six publications of poetry, including Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), recently noted as a finalist for the California Book Award. A Mellon Foundation Fellow, she is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program, where she teaches Filipino/a Literature in Diaspora, and Filipina Lives and Voices in Literature. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press.