Poet, novelist, and playwright R. Zamora Linmark was born in Manila, Philippines and has lived in Honolulu, Madrid, and Tokyo. He earned a BA from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His books include the poetry collections Prime-Time Apparitions (2005), The Evolution of a Sigh (2008), and Drive-By Vigils (2011) and the novels Rolling the R’s (1995), which Linmark adapted for the stage in 2008, and Leche (2011). His writing often deals with Filipino/a American stereotypes. Linmark was awarded a fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. He has taught at the University of Hawai‘i and the University of Miami.