John Bengan is a writer and translator based in Davao City, Philippines. He teaches writing and literature at the University of the Philippines — Mindanao. His translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, Shenandoah, and World Literature Today, among others. He is the co-editor of Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines.

His fiction has received prizes from the Philippines Free Press and the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. His book of stories Armor (Ateneo de Manila University Press, Manila, 2022) won the Madrigal González Best First Book Award. John translated Arkipelago by Januar Yap from Cebuano, a language of the Philippines, into English (Ateneo de Manila University Press, Manila, 2029. Click here and here for the publisher’s pages)