Alumit was born in Baguio City, The Philippines, grew up in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, and is the author of several award-winning books and plays, including “Letters to Montgomery Clift,” “Talking to the Moon” and “Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing.” His work has been published in “Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing” (New Rivers Press), the Lambda Literary Award nominated “Take Out, Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America” (Asian American Writers Workshop/Temple University), “DisOrient” and the “Asian Pacific American Journal.” For his efforts in art and activism, Alumit was listed as one of Out magazine’s “Out 100 for 2002” and named one of Genre Magazine’s “Men We Love.” He was recently honored with the James Duggins Award, a prize that recognizes talented mid-career gay writers.