Eileen R. Tabios loves books, and has released more than 20 print, five electronic and one CD poetry collections; an art essay collection; a collected novels book; a poetry essay/interview anthology; a short story collection; and two experimental biographies. INVENT(ST)ORY (Dos Madres Press, 2015) is her second of a series of Selected/Collected Poems focused on poetic form; her first Selected, THE THORN ROSARY (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), focused on a 12-year exploration of the prose poem form. She has also exhibited visual art and visual poetry in the United States and Asia. Recipient of the Philippines' National Book Award for Poetry for her first poetry collection, she has crafted an award-winning body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. Her poems have been translated into seven languages as well as computer- generated hybrid languages, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Music, Modern Dance and Sculpture. She also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized ten anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays in addition to serving as editor or guest editor for various literary journals. She maintains a biblioliphic blog, Eileen Verbs Books; edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review; steers the literary and arts publisher Meritage Press; and frequently curates thematic online poetry projects including LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (a recommended list of contemporary poetry books).
