Bino A. Realuyo was born and raised in Manila, Philippines, and studied international relations in the United States and South America. He has finished a poetry collection, In Spite of Open Eyes, and is the editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings on New York City. 

Bino's poetry and fiction have regularly appeared in The Kenyon Review,Manoa, New Letters, Puerto del Sol, The Asian Pacific American Journal, andThe Literary Review. He has done readings at universities across the country, and was an invited poet at the Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival in 1996 and a guest lecturer for literature at Yale University. He has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and the 1998 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. 

Bino works full-time in the field of literacy and technology and also teaches survival English part-time to immigrant sweatshop workers. He is at work on a new novel and a second poetry collection. He lives in Manhattan. The Umbrella Country is his first novel.

Books by Bino A. Realuyo

The Umbrella Country

by Bino A. Realuyo