Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (colonially known as “Vancouver”), now based in Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian (he/him/his) is a Filipinx queer neurodivergent author, editor, playwright, dramaturge, teacher and consultant. A graduate of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, he is the author of six books and co-editor of two anthologies. He was the 2013 recipient of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize and is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. His plays have been produced nationally and internationally, as well as on radio and television. His memoir, Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty and the Making of a Brown Queer Man, was published in 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press, and he recently co-edited Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Books). In 2022 he was a recipient of the one-time only British Columbia Lieutenant Governor’s Arts & Music Awards for his contributions to the arts in BC.
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