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Short Bio

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Bino A. Realuyo is the author of the novel The Umbrella Country and the poetry collection The Gods We Worship Live Next Door.  His literary works have appeared in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Harvard Review, Asymptote, North American Review, ZYZZYVA, New American Writing, Salamander, The Georgia Review, and The Common. Among his many awards are two NYSCA/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships  for fiction, and two Queens Council on the Arts Fellowships .  He has recently completed three new books:  Bataan New Jersey, a literary historical novel, Kiko Rosas’ The F.L.I.P Show, a short story collection, and #TheRebelSonnets, a poetry collection.   A graduate of Harvard University, Realuyo works in adult education and higher education management and lives in Manhattan with his husband.  Binoarealuyo.com  

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Long Bio 

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Life, Work and Education

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A polyglot just like his mother, Bino A. Realuyo was born and raised in Manila, Philippines and was educated in three continents.   His father, an architect and engineer, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a WWII Japanese concentration camp.  Realuyo was born when his father was pushing fifty.  His mother, a Chavacana, hailed from Zamboanga in Mindanao, the seat of resistance against Spain and the U.S. for 500 years.

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Realuyo studied at the American University’s School of International Service in Washington, D.C. and Universidad Argentina de la Impresa in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Later in life, with over a decade of experience in education management, he pursued graduate studies in education and non-profit management at Harvard University as a Leadership Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Center for Public Leadership. 

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A year after he graduated from college and six years after his family immigrated to the East Coast, he co-founded the seminal organization, The Asian American Writers Workshop.  The 90s was especially memorable for Realuyo as the decade seeded his political activism and launched a second life in literature.

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He is passionate about social justice and has dedicated the past 30 years of his work life to adult education in marginalized and low-income communities in NYC.   He grew up in Manila where jobs were scarce and opportunities low.  Having a full-time job has always been a blessing for him.  He has many circles of friends from all his jobs, his American gifts. Economic stability brought about by his FT management work has allowed him to explore a new city and country every year with his husband.  On weekends, he wrote.  During the pandemic, he went to a coffee shop every day for three years before his full-time work and wrote a literary historical novel titled, Bataan New Jersey.  

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