Alton Melvar M Dapanas

Alton Melvar M Dapanas (they/them), from the southern Philippines, authored three books of lyric essays and prose-poems including M of the Southern Downpours (2024).

They’ve appeared in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, The White Review, and He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems (Macmillan UK). Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine, find more at https://linktr.ee/samdapanas.

Articles by Alton Melvar M Dapanas

'The Mouth of a Gash, Sing It Like a Scream': Alton Melvar M Dapanas interviews Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka speaks to Alton Melvar M Dapanas on how her latest book Annah, Infinite reshapes speculative nonfiction, disrupts genre norms, and disputes the racial, gendered, and ableist biases of fraught literary and artistic spaces.

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