The Lonely Mountain

Wilfredo Pascual’s personal essays in English and Filipino have won the Philippines’ Palanca Award multiple times. His essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and listed as Notable in The Best American Essays 2016. Born in the Philippines in 1967, Pascual, in his mid-twenties, moved to Thailand, where he lived for twelve years. Later he moved to the United States, where he was based while he continued to work abroad for international nonprofits in Asia and Africa. While living in Thailand, Pascual traveled to the US and attended writing workshops at New York University and the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley. He was also a Bread Loaf Fellow in nonfiction. Pascual’s essays and poems have appeared in Salt Hill Journal, Your Impossible Voice, Fourth Genre, december, Queer Southeast Asia, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Studies, and Likhaan. He lives with his husband, Jack, in San Francisco. Find more at http://www.personalwilli.com.