Noel Alumit

Noel Alumit’s novels are Letters to Montgomery Clift and Talking to the Moon. He is the winner of the Stonewall Book Award, Violet Quill Award, and Global Filipino Literary Award. His acclaimed theatre pieces include Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing, The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar, and Master of the (miss) Universe. His writing has appeared in Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing; Take Out, Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America; DisOrient; the Asian Pacific American Journal; 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read; USA Today; The Advocate; amongst others. Noel also curates an LGBT reading series at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. He has spent 20 years doing AIDS work and is on the steering committee for Asian Pacific Islander Equality-LA, a marriage equality organization.