Alton Melvar M Dapanas (them/they) is assistant creative nonfiction editor of London-based Panorama: The Journal of Place & Travel and Iowa-based Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine, as well as an editorial reader for Creative Nonfiction magazine. Their recent works, delineating poetry and the essay, have appeared in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place (Germany), Sine Theta (China), The Babel Tower Notice Board (England), and Insignia: Asian Speculative Poetry (Japan) among others. Using the penname F Alex San Juan, they have been recently published in Impossible Archetype: A Journal of LGBTQ+ Poetry (Ireland). They identify as pansexual, nonbinary, and polyamorous. A native of Metro Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines, they are currently based in Siargao Island, living off-the-grid in between the Pacific Ocean and a mountain range.
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