Born and raised in the Philippines, Benito Vergara is the author of two academic monographs,
Displaying Filipinos: Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th-Century Philippines, and
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City. His work has appeared in
The Open Bar at Tin House, SmokeLong Quarterly, Entropy, Citron Review, and the anthology
Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 7. He has also received a fellowship from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and blogs occasionally at
The Wily Filipino.
