MACARIO D.

TIU has a doctorate in education, teaches literature at the Ateneo de Davao

University, has three Palanca golds for Short Story in Cebuano, and is a recipient of the
National Book Award in 2005 for Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and
Memory. Now he writes mostly in Cebuano, and rarely in English.

“Dr. Macario D. Tiu, is a skilled and gifted storyteller whose style and imagination are prodigious
and also the one who has miscellaneous writings.”

from literature to history he never fails to enthrall, captivate, even titillate, a generation of Mindanao
readers.

MACARIO D. TIU is a homegrown Mindanao scholar, historian, a community poet, famous writer,
editor, and researcher for English and Visayan story primarily fiction in verse. He has a doctorate
in education, and a professor in literature at the Ateneo de Davao University, whose goes is to
elucidate, simplifies and makes things easily to understood.

His famous works were BALYAN, NANKING STORE, and ANG BATA NA DILI MUTULOG. He was
also acknowledged to have three Palanca golds for Short Story in Cebuano, and is a recipient of
the National Book Award in 2005 for Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and Memory. As a
fictionist, his “Ang Bata na Dili Mutulog” won first prize and “Nanking Store” won third prize in the
so-called awarding of Palanca Golds. He is currently located in Calatunan Grande Davao City. Now
he writes frequently in Cebuano, and not often in English which was appeared in numerous books.

He is now currently working at Ateneo De Davao University as the chair of Humanities Division. His
fictions and poems which was written in Cebuano and English have appeared in Philippines Free
Press, Philippines Graphic and Bisaya. (http://www.sushidog.com/bpss/authors.htm