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ALBERT B. CASUGA (1943--)
ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born writer, lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Literature and English, magna cum laude), he taught English and Literature (Criticism, Theory, and Creative Writing) at the Philippines' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Philippines. His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems, was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House.

Books by Albert B. Casuga Summer Suns (short story collection with Cirilo Bautista, Manila UST Press 1962); Narra Poems and Others (poetry collection, San Beda Publications, Manila, 1968); Still Points (poetry collection, Flores & Associates, Manila, 1972); In A Sparrow’s Time (poetry collection, Canada, 1990; Songs for My Children (poetry collection, Canada, 1996; The Aesthetics of Literature (Literary Theory and Criticism), De La Salle University, Manila, 1972; Man in Search of Meaning: Literature (Humanities Series, Asia Foundation and De La Salle University, Manila, 1970); Man and His Literary Past: The Classical Tradition (Humanities Series, Asia Foundation and De La Salle University, Manila, 1971); A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems (UST  Publishing House, Manila, 2009) Casuga was a 1972 Fellow at the Silliman Writer's Workshop in Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines. He won the first national Philippine Parnaso Poetry Contest in the 70s; First Prizes in the Mississauga Canada Library Systems Literary Contests in 1990 (for Fiction), 1996 (for Poetry), and 1998 (for Poetry). He was editor of the Journal of Arts and Sciences in UST (1961-62), Graduate School Journal of UST (1964), Literary Editor of the San Beda College Journal (1965-1968), and Assistant Literary Editor of the UST's Varsitarian (1962). His works have been published in the Philippines Free Press, Graphic Weekly Magazine, NOW Philippines, The Sunday Times Magazine, Asia-Philippines Leader, Poetry Magazine (Maryland), Amihan (UST), De La Salle Philosophy Journal, San Beda College Journal., Philippine Writing (a journal of literature edited by the late novelist NVM Gonzalez), and poetry anthologies; viz., A Habit of Shores (UP Press, ed. Gemino H. Abad). His work is cited extensively in Dr. Isagani Cruz's Beyond Futility (Philippine Literary Criticism). In Canada, where he immigrated in 1980, he was an editor and writer at the Metroland Publishing Co. and taught English at various international schools. He founded Infocom, a public relations agency in Canada. He worked as a journalist at the United Press International (Manila branch) and was art columnist of the now defunct Philippines Herald. He publishes a literary blog at http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com and http://albertbcasuga.blogspot.com.