Alton Melvar M Dapanas (them/they) is assistant creative nonfiction editor of London-based Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel and Iowa-based Atlas and 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) and forthcoming from Voice & Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), among others. 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.
Poetry with Instincts (online poetry series):
INSTINCTS #21: ‘Mebu’yan Writes a Letter to an Old Friend’ (March 25th, 2021)
INSIGNIA STORIES 