Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is a Filipino-American poet, [1] fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher. Born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Tabios moved to the United States at the age of ten.

“Eileen R. Tabios: From Poet to Novelist” at Positively Filipino. Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 70 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in 11 countries and cyberspace.

Tabios is the author of the short-story collection Behind the Blue Canvas (2004) and works of fiction such as Novel Chatelaine (2009) and Silk Egg: Collected Novels (2009). She co-edited the anthology Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina …

Jul 1, 2021 · Tabios is described as “one of the foremost Filipino American poets of the 21st century,” by Asian Week; “one of the more adventuresome and truly creative poets before the public today,” by San Francisco Review of Books.

Eileen R. Tabios says, “Poetry is a decolonized language.” She proves it through her autobiography that begins with her first book that she wrote as a 2-3-year-old toddler and focuses on her poetry inventions: the hay (na)ku, the Murder Death Resurrection Poetry Generator, and …

Tabios takes for her theme the histories of colonialism, empire-building, and dictatorship. While these themes are familiar to us by now, the novel’s genius hinges on the Philippine concept of kapwa, a notion that sees the self in the other and, kapwa-time, where time—past and future moments—meld into “now.” It is a novel that ...

Mar 6, 2025 · Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 70 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in 11 countries. She is the author of two novels, The Balikbayan Artist (Penguin Random House SEA, 2024) and DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (AC Books, New York, 2021), as well as an autobiography, The ...

Feb 27, 2025 · Eileen R. Tabios has released over 70 books of poetry, fiction, essays, visual art and experimental prose from publishers around the world.

Tabios is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eileen Tabios (born 1960), Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher; Gerald Tabios (born 1969), Filipino long-distance runner and Ultramarathon runner

Eileen R. Tabios, Saint Helena, California Eileen R. Tabios has released over 60 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in 10 countries and cyberspace. Forthcoming in 2023 is the poetry collection Because I Love You, I Become War.