Chuckberry J. Pascual is a novelist, short story writer, and translator. He is the author of the novels Mars, Watch Out for Zombies!, Mars, Watch Out for more Zombies!, and The Vanishing Village and the short story collections including A Country of Corpses and The Vanished. He has also authored books on ethnography, literary criticism, and literary history such as Entering the Scene: The Movie Theater in Philippine Literature and a Study of Selected Movie Theaters in Recto, What is Most Important, and The Outsider in Literature. He translated into Filipino four short story collections by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo and Miguel Syjuco’s Man Asian winning novel, Ilustrado. He also co-authored a collection of one-act plays, and co-edited two anthologies of queer works. Most of his works have been finalists and winners at the National Book Awards, Gintong Aklat Awards, and National Children’s Book Awards in the following categories: Best Book of Short Fiction, Best Translated Work, Best Anthology, Best Creative Nonfiction, and Kid’s Choice.
