Alton Melvar M Dapanas

Alton Melvar M Dapanas (they/them), from the southern Philippines, is author of Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021), assistant nonfiction editor at London-based Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel and Iowa-based Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine, and editorial reader at Creative Nonfiction magazine. Their nonfiction, book reviews, translation, author interviews, and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming from journals, magazines, and anthologies in Lebanon, Germany, Singapore, USA, Hong Kong, Austria, and Japan; the latest of which can be found in Tolka Journal (Ireland), New Contrast (South Africa), Mekong Review (Australia), Canthius Magazine (Canada), and The Sun Isn’t Out Long Enough: Queer Experiences Across Borders (UK). M of the Southern Downpours & Other Prose Poems is their forthcoming second collection. Find more at https://linktr.ee/samdapanas.