Gina Apostol
Dan and Maggie Inouye Chair in Democratic Ideals
Gina Apostol has written five novels, among them Insurrecto, named by Publishers Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, and her most recent, La Tercera, out in May this year. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Granta, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. She has been awarded the Rome Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and two Philippine National Book Awards. She grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines, and lives in New York and western Massachusetts. Apostol is the Spring 2024 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals.
