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Jose Wendell Capili is a poet and academic from the Philippines. He earned his degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo,University of Cambridge and Australian National University. He is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he is also the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Capili is the author of A Madness of Birds (poetry, University of the Philippines Press, 1998); Bloom and Memory (essays, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2002); Mabuhay to Beauty! (popular culture, Milflores Publishing, 2003), and From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature (anthology, Casula Powerhouse, 2007). His works have been published in Europe, North America, East/Southeast Asia and Australia, including Literary Review, The Poet’s Voice (University of Graz), Korea Times, Korea Herald, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Manila Chronicle, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento, Diliman Review, Bulawan, Solidarity, Caracoa, Anagram, Mabuhay, Sands and Coral, Unitas, Tomas, Budhi, Philippine Studies, Love Gathers All: Philippine-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry (Singapore: Ethos Books), Flippin': Filipinos on America (New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop and Philadelphia: Temple University Press), and Westerly.

Capili worked on a research project involving Southeast Asian Diaspora Writers in Australia at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. In 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore, University of Sydney; Westerly Centre, University of Western Australia; University of Melbourne; and the University of Queensland.

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