Brian Ascalon Roley

Brian Ascalon Roley is a multiracial writer of Philippine and American descent and a recent National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow. He is currently Professor of English at Miami University where he directs the creative writing program.

He has received additional fellowships and awards from the the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Ohio Arts Council, the Djerassi Foundation, Ragdale, and the VCCA, among others.

His books include the award-winning novel, AMERICAN SON (WW Norton / Christian Bourgois Editeur), which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist and recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award in 2003, among other honors. Roley's work has also been featured in the California Council for the Humanities Statewide Reading Campaign of 2004, and has been taught in many classrooms around the country and internationally.

His fiction, literary essays and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience (WW Norton), Charlie Chan is Dead 2: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Penguin), Los Angeles Noir (Akashic), and several best-selling anthologies in the Philippines.

In 2016, THE LAST MISTRESS OF JOSE RIZAL & Other Stories was released by Northwestern University Press.

AMBUSCADE, winner of the 2020 Finishing Line Press Chapbook Competition, was released in February 2021.

THE ICE BENEATH THE EARTH, poems, was released in Jan 2024 by C&R Press.