NINO SORIA DE VEYRA
Nino Soria de Veyra (Antonino Salvador Soria de Veyra) teaches courses in both the BA Communication and Media Arts and the BA English (Creative Writing) programs of the Department of Humanities, ​College of Humanities & Social Sciences, ​​University of the Philippines Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines. 
Education
  • M.A. English (Creative Writing), Silliman University, 2001
  • B.A. Communication Arts (Literature), University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College, 1987
Appointments
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, College of Arts & Social Sciences, UP Mindanao, June 2002 - present
  • Director, UP Mindanao Interactive Learning Center/Learning Resource Center, October 2015 - December 2017
  • Chair, UP Mindanao Chancellor's Committee for Culture and the Arts, September 2013 - December 2017
  • Member, UP System GE Council, June 2013 - December 2017
  • Project Development Assistant for the President's End-of-Term Report, UP Mindanao, 10 May - 31 December 2016
  • Member, UP System GE Framework Task Force, February 2015 - February 2016
  • Senior Editor, Banwa Journal (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Issue), June 2014 - May 2015
  • Chair, Department of Humanities, College of Arts & Social Sciences, UP Mindanao: June 2004 - May 2007; June 2007 - May 2010; June 2011 - May 2014
Extension Work
  • Participant, 4th National Conference on Open and Distance e-Learning, UP Open University, Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria, Quezon City, 5-6 November 2015
  • Resource Speaker, "Writing a Storm" (craft lecture), Davao Writers Workshop, Lispher Inn, Davao City, 31 October 2015 (Davao Writers Guild, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and UP Mindanao)
  • Panelist, Davao Writers Workshop, Lispher Inn, Davao City, 27-31 October 2015 (Davao Writers Guild, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and UP Mindanao)
  • Resource Speaker, "Production-Led Methodology in Communication Research," Seminar Series in Communication Research, BA Communication Arts Program, UP Mindanao, CHSS Audio Visual Room, 21 September 2015
  • Resource Speaker, "Roundtable Discussion of Currents in Communication Research - Media Studies,"  Seminar Series in Communication Research, BA Communication Arts Program, UP Mindanao, CHSS Audio Visual Room, 13 July 2015
  • Resource Speaker, "Texture in Poetry" (craft lecture), Davao Writers Workshop, Lispher Inn, Davao City, 31 October 2014 (Davao Writers Guild, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and UP Mindanao)
  • Panelist, Davao Writers Workshop, Lispher Inn, Davao City, 27-31 October 2014 (Davao Writers Guild, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and UP Mindanao)
  • Panelist, 10th Lamiraw Criticism Workshop, Naval State University, Naval, Biliran, 6-8 November 2013 (Katig Writers Network Inc., Naval State University, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts)
  • Resource Speaker, "How To Write a Didactic Poem" (craft lecture), Davao Writers Workshop, Lispher Inn, Davao City, 31 October 2013 (Davao Writers Guild, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Literary Society of UP Mindanao)
  • Panelist, Davao Writers Workshop, Lispher Inn, Davao City, 28 October-1 November 2013 (Davao Writers Guild, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Literary Society of UP Mindanao)
Publications
  • "Pag-ultan han Pinulongan" (poem in Waray), Tinalunay: Hinugpong nga Panurat nga Waray, ed. Merlie M. Alunan; Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2017
  • "Dulok" (poem in Waray), Our Memory of Water: Words after Haiyan, ed. Merlie M. Alunan; Naga City: Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2016
  • "Birds on a Wire" (poem), ETAS Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2016)
  • "Nagtataka si Nina, Nagtatanong si Nina" (translation), Nina Wonders, Nina Asks, Marcy Dans Lee (story and illustrations); Makati City: UNICEF, 2015
  • "This Is a Poem" (poem), ETAS Journal  Vol. 32 No. 1 (Winter 2014)
  • "Census" (poem), Celebration: An Anthology/Sands & Coral 2011-2013 Special Edition (December 2013)
  • "The Spider and the Poet" (poem), Dagmay/Sun.Star Davao (20 January 2013)
  • "Tambuburay" (poem), 8 Magazine (July-September 2011)
  • "Child's Play" (poem), Sands & Coral 34 (February 1996)
  • "Deception" (poem), Sands & Coral 34 (February 1996)
  • "In My Garden" (poem), Caracoa 19 (July 1988)
Fellowships/Grants
  • Writing Fellow, All-Visayas Centennial Creative Writing Workshop, UP Visayas Tacloban College, December 2008
  • Writing Fellow, National Writers Semestral Workshops, Silliman University, 1988-1989
  • Writing Fellow, 16th National Writers' Workshop, University of the Philippines Diliman, April 1988
  • Graduate Fellow, Graduate Studies Program, Silliman University, 1987-1989
  • Writing Fellow, 25th National Writers' Workshop, Silliman University, May 1987