Gina Apostol won the 2022 Rome Prize in Literature to write her next novel on womanhood and radicalism in fin-de-siécle Europe. Her last book, "Insurrecto," was named by Publishers' Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, selected as an Editor's Choice of the NYT, and shortlisted for the Dayton Prize. "Gun Dealers' Daughter" won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award.

"Bibliolepsy" and "The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata," now out in the US from Soho Press, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). Her newest book, "La Tercera," will be out in May 2023. She has received fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and Emily Harvey Foundation, among other residencies. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others.

She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City.

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