Poeta En San Francisco
Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and  raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA  in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her MFA at San  Francisco State University. She is the author of Gravities of  Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San  Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James  Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her  third book, entitled Diwata, is forthcoming from BOA  Editions, Ltd. in 2010.  Her chapbooks, Easter Sunday (2008), Cherry (2008), and  West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM and  other Oakland poems (2008) are published by Ypolita Press,  Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and Deep Oakland Editions,  respectively. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have  appeared in Latino Poetry Review, New American Writing,  North American Review, Notre Dame Review, XCP: Cross  Cultural Poetics, among others.  She has taught Creative Writing at Mills College, and  Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco. She lives  with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.