R. Zamora Linmark has published four poetry collections: Prime Time Apparitions (2005), The Evolution of a Sigh 2008), Drive-By Vigils (2011), and Pop Verite (2017), all from Hanging Loose Press. He also authored three novels, including The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart (Random House Children’s Books, 2019). Forthcoming is Eh, No Talk Li’Dat, an anthology of Pidgin writings by Hawaiian writers, for which he served as editor, and And The Winner Is, a novel about Hawaii in the 1980s. He divides his time between Honolulu and Manila.






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