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Zeny May Recidoro

Zeny May Recidoro is a Filipino writer and scholar currently residing in the United States. She is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council fellowship grant from 2018 to 2020. She has a degree in Art Studies from the University of the Philippines, and an MFA in Art Writing and Criticism from the School of Visual Arts. Her literary works have been published in Lontar: A Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, University of Hong Kong’s Yuan Yang, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, quarrtsiluni, Terse Journal, Unlikely Journal, Ateneo de Manila University’s Kritika Kultura, Queen Mobs Tea House, Variable West, and Berfois. One of her early poems, We (2012; Best of the Net nominee, 2013) was translated into Chinese for Verse and Voice Poetry Magazine in 2017. As an art writer, she has written for the Brooklyn Rail and Degree Critical. Her essay “Works-in-Progress: Artistic Practices and Digital Communities” appeared in the Philippine Contemporary Art Network’s Writing Presently. She has a suite of five poems in Likhaan: the Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. Her first book, I Am A Wound Shrouded in Devotion, was released in October 2022. She works for the Mennello Museum of American Art and Women in the Arts, Inc. in Orlando, Florida.

Awards

Burnaway Art Writing Incubator, Online, June – July 2024

University of the Philippines 63rd National Writers Workshop, Fiction Fellow (Liminal Death Plan), Iloilo City, Philippines, September 2024.

Asian Cultural Council Graduate Fellowship Grant, New York City, 2018-2020.

Fellowships

UP National Writers Workshop

Literary Works

PUBLISHED WORKS

BOOK

I Am A Wound Shrouded in Devotion. Alien Buddha Press, November 2022. ISBN9798846451971.

ESSAYS

Love Letter to Laetitia Sonami (Micro Essay). Variable West. Web. January 12, 2021. https://variablewest.com/2021/01/12/love-letter-laetitia-sonami/

Love Letter to Pauline Oliveros (Micro Essay). Variable West. Web. 31 August 2020. https://variablewest.com/2020/08/31/pauline-oliveros/

“First flaneurysm”. Queen Mobs Teahouse. Web. England, 3 September 2019. https://queenmobs.com/2019/09/misfit-doc-first-flaneurysm/

“BALACLAVAS: Pussy Riot, Russia”. Mas Que La Cara: Women, Masks, and Protest. Gantala Press. Philippines, 2020.

“Works-in-Progress: Artistic Practices and Digital Communities”. Writing Presently. Edited by Renan Laru-an. The Philippine Contemporary Art Network. Philippines, December 2020. Digital Version: http://pcan.org.ph/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/writing-presently_color.pdf

“The Acoustics of Solitude: On Éliane Radigue’s Adnos I, II, III.” Anomaly: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts, Issue 30: Writings by Filipino Women. Edited by Kristine Ong Muslim. September 2020. Web: https://anmly.org/ap30/filipino-women-30/zeny-may-d-recidoro/

“Interiority and the Novel: The Tale of Genji at the Metropolitan Museum of Art”. Degree Critical. MFA Art Writing Program Journal, School of Visual Arts. Web. United States of America, 20 April 2019. https://artwriting.sva.edu/journal/post/interiority-and-the-novel-the-tale-of-genji-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art

“Dreaming and Conceiving or, A Case for Folktales”, a review of Raven Chacon’s “Still Life No. 3” for Degree Critical. MFA Art Writing Program Journal, School of Visual Arts. Web. United States of America, 30 November 2018. https://artwriting.sva.edu/journal/post/dreaming-or-conceiving-or-a-case-for-more-folktales

“Spatial Cycles”. Unlikely Journal, the Canceled Issue. Edited by Maia Nichols. Web. La Trobe University, Victorian College of the Arts and University of Melbourne, Australia, May 2018. https://unlikely.net.au/issue-03/spatial-cycles. ISSN 2205-0027

REVIEWS

Offsite West Space Gallery, Australia. Group show, Points of Connection. “In the Air: On Points of Connection”. Degree Critical. Web. New York City, 4 September 2020. https://artwriting.sva.edu/journal/post/in-the-air-on-points-of-connection

Graham Lambkin. Time Runs Through the Darkest Hour at Blank Forms, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn Rail: Artseen. Print. United States of America, February 2020. Weblink: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/02/artseen/Graham-Lambkin

“The Ear Experiments on Uncertainty: On Éliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort”. Berfrois. Web. England, 7 January 2020. https://www.berfrois.com/2020/01/zeny-may-d-recidoro-on-eliane-radigue/

“The Liberated Mind”, a review of Monsters, Animals and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales edited by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane, published by Columbia University Press. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Web. Hong Kong, 18 December 2018. https://chajournal.blog/2018/12/18/monsters-animals

“Dark Sunshine in Silay”, a review of Si Betchay at ang Sacred Circle: Ang Lihim ng Nakasimangot na Maskara by Rogelio Braga. Businessworld SparkUp. Web. Philippines, 13 October 2017. https://www.bworldonline.com/dark-sunshine-in-silay/

INTERVIEWS

“A Vibrant and Free Spirit: An Afternoon with Njeri Kinuthia”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida. 26 April 2024 https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/blog-04032025

“A Little Piece of Heaven”, interview with Christine Sloan Stoddard, on Heaven is a Photograph (2020). TERSE Journal. Web. New York City, 9 September 2020. https://tersejournal.com/2020/09/09/a-little-piece-of-heaven-an-interview-with-christine-sloan-stoddard-by-zeny-may-recidoro

BLOGS

“Persistence and Gratitude in Sustaining a Creative Life”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, 3 April 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/blog-04032024

“A Life of Color, Warmth of Home”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, May 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/pacita-abad

“A Psychological History of Femininity: A Conversation with Tenee’ Hart, Winner of the 2024 Carlos Malamud Prize”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, July 2024 https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/a-psychological-history-of-femininity-a-conversation-with-tenee-hart-winner-of-the-2024-carlos-malamud-prize

“25 Variable Stars: Ligia Bouton on the Legacy of Astronomer of Henrietta Swann Leavitt”. Women in the Arts, Inc. News. Web. Orlando, Florida, August 2024. https://www.womeninthearts.org/women-in-the-arts-news/25-variable-stars-ligia-bouton-on-the-legacy-of-astronomer-henrietta-leavitt-swan

POETRY

“Bell in the Rain, a Jungle and Other Poems”. Likhaan: the Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. Volume 15. University of the Philippines Press, October 2021.

“Recuerdos de Patay or Images of the Dead”. Vastarien— A Literary Journal. Volume 2, Issue 3. Edited by Jon Padgett and Matt Cardin. Grimscribe Press. United States of America, Fall 2019.

“The Tongue is a Shore Where Words Become Stranded”. Berfrois. Web. England, 9 July 2019. https://www.berfrois.com/2019/07/the-tongue-is-a-shore-where-words-become-stranded-by-zeny-may-dy-recidoro/

“(NOT) MY WRITING DESK”. Queen Mobs Teahouse. Web. England, 28 June 2019. https://queenmobs.com/2019/06/not-my-writing-desk-zeny-may-dy-recidoro/

“A Clove Scented Winter”. Terse Journal, Hauntology Issue. Web. United States of America, 4 May 2019. https://tersejournal.com/2019/05/04/a-clove-scented-winter-by-zeny-may-dy-recidoro/

“Eden and Our Habits”. Lontar: A Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. Issue 7. Edited by Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Adan Jimenez. Epigram Books. Singapore, November 2016. ISBN 978-4757-77-5

“Poems of an Internet Trawler”. Kritika Kultura. Edited by Mark Anthony Cayanan. Ateneo de Manila University. Philippines, March 2015. ISSN 1656-152x

FICTION

“Evocatoria or, Stories of Grace”. Terse Journal, Hauntology Issue. Web. United States of America, 21 April 2019. https://tersejournal.com/2019/04/21/evocatoria-or-stories-of-grace-by-zeny-may-d-recidoro/

“Two Stories”. Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing. The University of Hong Kong, School of English. Print. Hong Kong, Winter/Spring 2013. ISSN 2310-7014

“The Great Disappearing Act”. Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore. Edited by Ng Yi-Sheng and Amanda Lee Koe. Print. Ethos Books. Singapore, 2013. ISBN 978-981-07-5680-2

“No Eyes Behind Our Heads”. Thursday Never Looking Back. Edited by Adam David. E-book. The Youth and Beauty Brigade. Philippines, December 2012. ASIN B00AU21X9A

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