Gina Apostol was born in Manila and lives in New York. She went to college at the University of the Philippines and earned her MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her first novel, Bibliolepsy, won the 1998 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction. Her third novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, is a comic historical novel-in-footnotes about the Philippine war for independence against Spain and America in 1896. Her latest, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, recently won the PEN/Open Book Award and will come out in paperback this fall. She is currently working on a novel about the Philippine-American War, William McKinley’s World.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Toward a Radical Hope and a World-Changing Rage: A Conversation with Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja discusses her new book “Aftermath,” about a 2019 terror attack....
Francine Prose’s Problem
Gina Apostol objects to Francine Prose’s objections to Sadia Shepard....
Dancing with Dictators
In Imelda Marcos's tawdry discotheque....
Why Benedict Anderson Counts: Lessons on Writing, Culture, and José Rizal
Gina Apostle is currently working on a novel about the Philippine-American war, William McKinley’s World....
Borges, Politics, and the Postcolonial
MARK O’CONNELL on The New Yorker’s "Page Turner" writes astutely about Borges’s complex reflexivity in “Two New Books ...
