Ian Casocot

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Ian Rosales Casocot (born 1975) is a creative writer and journalist from Negros Oriental, Philippines. He is perhaps best known for his prizewinning short stories Old Movies, The Hero of the Snore Tango, Rosario and the Stories, and A Strange Map of Time. He also maintains A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature, a website on Filipino writings and literary criticism.

Casocot studied at the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) and Silliman University (Dumaguete) where he graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication. He was a fellow for fiction at National Writers’Workshops in Dumaguete, Cebu and Iligan.

Casocot received Don Carlos Palanca, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and the PBBY-Salanga prizes for his fiction. He is also the first winner of the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose in the Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards in 2006. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts selected him as one of the authors for The 2003 UBOD New Writers Series. FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures , an anthology he had edited, received a National Book Award nomination from the Manila Critics Circle.

His short stories and essays have been published in The Sunday Times, Sands and Coral, Dapitan, Tomas, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer, SunStar Bacolod, and MetroPost.

Casocot teaches English and Literature at Silliman University in Dumaguete City. He is also a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He also writes two weekly columns, The Spy in the Sandwich for Visayan Daily Star's StarLife Magazine and Tempest in a Coffee Mug for MetroPost.