We are thrilled to welcome to Paloma Press our new Advisory Board members and long-time friends and supporters!
Cynthia T. Buiza is a nonprofit executive and policy expert. She earned a master’s degree in International Affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, with a concentration on human security studies. She also holds certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Cynthia currently serves as a California State Commissioner with the Little Hoover Commission and the CA100. Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and publications in the Philippines and the US. Her debut poetry collection, The Future Is a Country I Do Not Live in, was released in August 2022.
Remé-Antonia Grefalda is the author of baring more than soul: poems and The Other Blue Book: On The High Seas of Discovery, and co-author of a Ford Foundation report, Towards A Cultural Community: Identity, Education and Stewardship in Filipino American Performing Arts. She is the recipient of the Philippines’ Palanca Award for her full-length play, In the Matter of Willie Grayson, produced and staged at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She is the founder and editor of Our Own Voice and the Washington D.C.-based Qbd Ink theater group, as well as founding curator of the Asian and Pacific Islander Collection at the Library of Congress.
Eileen R. Tabios has released over 70 collections of poetry, fiction, art, essays, and experimental writings from publishers around the world. Translated into 13 languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies which has involved hundreds of other poets and writers. Recent releases include an autobiography, THE INVENTOR; a poetry collection Because I Love You, I Become War; an art monograph, Drawing the Six Directions; a flash fiction collection (in collaboration with harry k stammer), Getting To One; a novel DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (released as a Filipino translation, KalapatingLeon, by Danton Remoto); and two French books, PRISES (Double Take) (trans. Fanny Garin) and La Vie erotique de l’art (trans. Samuel Rochery). Her body of work further includes a first poetry book, Beyond Life Sentences, which received the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry, as well as invention of the hay(na)ku, a 21st century diasporic poetic form; the MDR Poetry Generator that can create poems totaling theoretical infinity; the “Flooid” poetry form that’s rooted in a good deed; and the monobon poetry form based on the monostich. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies. More information is at http://eileenrtabios.com
Welcome Cynthia, Eileen, & Reme! We value your wisdom, expertise, and friendship, and look forward to building capacity and expanding our publishing operations with you. Happy Women’s History Month!
