Jade Mark B Capiñanes

Jade Mark B Capiñanes won third prize in the Essay Category of the 67th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for his essay ‘A Portrait of a Young Man as a Banak.’ He is the author of the satirical chapbook series ‘Vince & Kath & Derrida,’ which was named as one of the Best Filipino Books of 2017 by CNN Philippines. He was a writing fellow for essay/creative nonfiction at the 2016 Davao Writers Workshop and the 2017 University of Santo Tomas (UST) National Writers Workshop. His works have appeared in Dagmay, Young Blood 6, New Mandala, and Cotabato Literary Journal, where he once served as nonfiction editor. Formerly an editorial assistant at his alma mater’s research office, he currently works as a research assistant for a project focused on the Bangsamoro in Mindanao. He also serves as the chairperson of Pangandungan, a writers group in General Santos City.

  • Bioluminescence

    He was pumping air into his wife’s lungs when I arrived. She lay on a steel bed,   and I, their grandnephew, appealed to a nurse for some warmth, at least a blanket. In this dim room   metal and glass barely glistened. One midnight, when I was young, he woke me up to catch…