Alton Melvar M Dapanas (they/them), essayist, poet, and translator from the southern Philippines, is the editor-at-large for the Philippines at Asymptote. Author of Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021), contributor to The Best Asian Poetry 2021–22, and nominee to the Pushcart Prize for their lyric essay, their latest works have appeared in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, Oxford Anthology of Translation, Sant Jordi Festival of Books, and the University of Alabama Press anthology Infinite Constellations. Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine, they’re an assistant nonfiction editor at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature and Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine. They have translated Filipino writers Adelina Gurrea Monasterio from the Spanish, Fernando A Buyser, Vicente Rama, and Cindy A Velasquez from the Binisaya, and Stefani J Alvarez from the Filipino. Find more at https://linktr.ee/samdapanas.