Winner of the 2024 Summerlee Book Prize!
“Discover ‘Manila Village’ in Barataria Bay where Filipinos settled and dried shrimp. Taste the melding of cultures, languages, and flavors in the numerous ‘recipes’ that unfold in verse. Settling St. Malo is a deep look into the past of a region and celebrates the diversity of the Gulf Coast.”
Katherine Hoerth, Author of Flare Stacks in Full Bloom (2022).
Center for History & Culture Fellow
I was named a Research Fellow for 2024-25 Academic Year by the Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University.
Summerlee Book Prize
Settling St. Malo won the 2024 Summerlee Book Prize–Creative. The award recognizes book-length publications that best enrich our knowledge of the past, present, and future of Southeast Texas and the greater Gulf Coast.
Documentary Film
For the past few years, I have been working with Virgile Beddok and a host of others on the film, Filipino La, a narration of my discovery of my ancestral story and the history of Filipino Louisiana.
