Ian Rosales Casocot is a graphic artist, cultural worker, literature and film teacher, critic, and award-winning novelist based in Dumaguete City, Philippines. He taught for many years at the Department of English and Literature of Silliman University, where he was the Founding Coordinator and Associate for Fiction of the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center. He has won several Palanca Awards, an NVM Gonzalez Special Prize, and the Neil Gaiman/Gregorio Brillantes Grand Prize for his fiction. His books include FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures, Old Movies and Other Stories, Beautiful Accidents, Heartbreak & Magic, First Sight of Snow, Celebration, and Handulantaw. His novel Sugar Land was longlisted for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, the biggest prize for the English novel in Asia. He is contributing writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Smile Magazine, Rogue Magazine, Esquire Magazine, and other national publications, as well as CNN Philippines. His latest books, Don’t Tell Anyone and Bamboo Girls, are in bookstores right now. He was a 2010 Writing Resident of the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in the U.S., for which he produced the documentary City of Literature. He is the founding director of the Silliman Film Open, and was an ExeCom Member of the National Committee on Cinema for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He is profiled in the literature volume of the Cultural Center of the Philippines [CCP] Encyclopedia of Philippine Arts.