About the Author

Gilbert Luis R. Centina III is a Catholic author and poet. His books include two novels, five other poetry collections and a literary criticism. He has an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of the Philippines. After his ordination to the priesthood, he briefly served as a missionary in Peru. He taught literature as a professorial lecturer and for many years served as a school chaplain in the Philippines and later as a pastor of a Manhattan parish church. Along the way, he edited books, a magazine and a journal, wrote hundreds of newspaper columns and contributed articles and fiction to magazines and journals. Today, he serves Iglesia del Carmen in Neguri, Getxo, Spain. Respected for his poetry, his works have been widely anthologized in high school and college textbooks on Philippine literature in English. He also writes in English, Spanish, Hiligaynon and Tagalog. From the Asian Catholic Publishers and the Archdiocese of Manila under Jaime Cardinal Sin, he received the Catholic Authors Award in 1998.