Paolo Tiausas is a Filipino poet and the author of the following books of poetry: Angas?, Outlive, my heart is an edge / ang puso kong hiwâ, and Tuwing Nag-iisa sa Mapa ng Buntonghininga, which won the National Book Award for Best Book of Poetry in Filipino in 2023. His awards include being recognized as Makata ng Taón by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) in the 2021 Talaang Ginto and by the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2016. In 2024, he participated in the Kyoto Writers Residency held in Japan as the Japan Foundation ASEAN Fellow. Along with Nikay Paredes, he co-founded TLDTD (tldtd.org), a biannual online journal for Filipino poets and poetry, which won first place and honourable mention in The 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry run by Sing Lit Station.

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Si Paolo Tiausas ay isang makatang Filipino na may-akda ng mga sumusunod na aklat ng tula: Angas?, Outlive, my heart is an edge / ang puso kong hiwâ, at Tuwing Nag-iisa sa Mapa ng Buntonghininga, na nanalo ng National Book Award bilang Best Book of Poetry in Filipino noong 2023. Nakamit na niya ang mga gantimpalang Makata ng Taón sa 2021 Talaang Ginto ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, at sa Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature noong 2016. Lumahok siya noong 2024 sa Kyoto Writers Residency, na idinaos sa Japan, bilang Japan Foundation ASEAN Fellow. Kapwa-patnugot niya si Nikay Paredes sa TLDTD (tldtd.org), isang biannual online journal para sa mga tula at makatang Filipino, na nagwagi ng unang gantimpala at honorable mention sa The 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry ng Sing Lit Station.

[photographs by Pauline Reyes]