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ALFRED A. YUSON , also known as Krip Yuson, has authored 19 books, including novels, poetry collections, short fiction, essays, and children's stories, apart from having edited various other titles. His mastery of language has been described as ‘heraldic' and having the ‘power to transform'. This artistry has won him several literary distinctions, the most recent of which include the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (Stalwart of Art and Culture) award from the City of Manila in June 2003, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant for residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy in 2003 to write his third novel.
Yuson was also conferred with the SEAWrite (SouthEast Asian Writers) Award by Thai royalty for lifetime achievement, and has been elevated to the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines ' most prestigious literary distinction. He is a founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council , Creative Writing Foundation, Inc. and Manila Critics Circle, and is currently Chairman of the Writers Union of the Philippines . He also serves as Philippines Editor for MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing , published by the University of Hawaii . A documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter, he is a board member of the Movie and Television Ratings and Classification Board.
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His impressive bibliography includes the poetry collections: Sea Serpent, (Monsoon Press, 1980), Trading in Mermaids (Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1993), Mothers Like Elephants ( Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2000), Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woman (University of the Philippines Press, 2002), and the translation, Love's A Vice / Bisyo and Pag-Ibig: Translations into English of 60 Poems by Mike L. Bigornia ( National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2004).
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