Eileen Tabios

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Eileen Tabios

Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is an award-winning Filipino-American experimental poet, fiction writer, editor, anthologist, critic and publisher.

Born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Eileen Tabios moved to the United States at the age of 10. She holds a B.A. political science from Barnard College and a M.B.A. in economics and international business from New York University Graduate School of Business. She has worked as a print and broadcast journalist, economist, secretary, stock market analyst, country risk analyst, "temp typist", project finance banker and editor of the journal Asian Pacific American. She began to write poetry in 1995.

She has released a poetry CD and written, edited or co-edited 16 books of poetry, fiction and essays. Her most recent books are a selected prose poem collection (1996–2002) entitled Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole (Marsh Hawk Press, New York 2002), her first short story collection Behind The Blue Canvas (Giraffe Books, Quezon City, 2004), a poetry collection Menage A Trois With The 21st Century (xPressed, Espoo, 2004) and the multi-genre collection I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005).

Her other books include Beyond Life Sentences: Poems (Anvil Press, Manila. 1998); Black Lightning: Poetry in Progress (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 1998); The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by Jose Garcia Villa (Kaya Press, New York. 1999); Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers which she co-edited with poet Nick Carbo (Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, 2000); Ecstatic Mutations: Experiments in the Poetry Laboratory (Giraffe Books, Manila, 2000); My Romance : Essays (Giraffe Books, Philippines. 2001).

Her awards include the Philippines' Manila Critics Circle National Book Award for Poetry, the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award, a Witter Bynner Poetry Grant and a PEN Open Book Award. She is the founder of Meritage Press, a multidisciplinary literary and arts press based in St. Helena, California.