-Francisco Arcellana was born on September 6, 1916.

He already had ambitions of becoming a

writer early in his childhood. His actual writing, however, started when he became a member of
The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana continued writing in
various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Later on he received a
Rockefeller Grant and became a fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and at the
Breadloaf Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957.
-Bautista was born in Tondo, Manila, Philippines on December 2, 1945 to Esteban Bautista and
Gloria Torres. She graduated from Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in 1958, and from Torres
High School in 1962. She was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but
dropped out because she had always wanted to be a writer and schoolwork was taking too
much time. Her first short story, "Katugon ng Damdamin," as published in Liwayway Magazine
and thus started her writing career.
-Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (c. 1911– September 11, 1956) was a Filipino American author, poet,
and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino American experience during the 1930s - early 1950s, he
is best remembered for his semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical novel America Is In the Heart
(1946) — a staple in American Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies classes.Though
Bulosan was only 42-45 years old when he died of tuberculosis-complicated pneumonia in
Seattle in 1956, he left behind a large body of poems, novels, short stories, plays, and
correspondence on a range of related topics. Bulosan’s works describe the experience of
growing up poor in a rural area of the Philippines, chronicling social and economic conditions
created by the American occupation and centuries of Spanish colonialism.
-Linda Ty Casper (Malabon, 1931) is a Filipino writer. She is a recipient of the S.E.A. Write
Award. Born as Belinda Ty in Malabon, Philippines in 1931, she spent the World War II years
with her grandmother while her father worked in the Philippine National Railways, and her
mother in the Bureau of Public Schools. Her grandmother told her innumerable stories about
the Filipino's struggle for independence, that later became the topics of her novels. Linda Ty
Casper graduated valedictorian in the University of the Philippines, and later earned her
Master's degree in Harvard University for International Law. In 1956, she married Leonard
Casper, a professor emeritus of Boston College who is also a critic of Philippine Literature. They
have two daughters and reside in Massachusetts.Her works include the historical novel
DreamEden and the political novels Awaiting Trespass, Wings of Stone, A Small Party in a
Garden, and Fortress in the Plaza. She has also published three collections of short stories
which present a cross-section of Filipino society.
-Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an author and editor of 20 books. She co-founded PAWWA or
Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine American Literary
House. Brainard's works include the World War II novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The
Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, and Woman With Horns and Other Stories. She edited several
anthologies including Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in
America, and two volumes of Growing Up Filipino I and II, books used by educators.