Biography
Noel Pabillo Mariano is an educator, editor, writer and sometimes cartoonist. He is a Southern California native and a Kundiman Fellow. As a community activist, he has worked within the LGBT communities within the Los Angeles and Inland Empire counties. It was there he worked to produce, organize and edit the first national “Coming Out Monologues.” His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Connotation Press, Redactions & elsewhere.
When not spending time writing, teaching or volunteering time for various grassroots social justice organizations, Noel serves as the editor of Circumlocution Literary, an online literary magazine focused on publishing poetry, fiction, essays and artwork and showcasing reviews and interviews pertaining to young writers. You can visit it at www.circumlocutionlit.com.
He currently splits his time between Los Angeles & Riverside, CA, at the latter he graduated with his MFA degree in creative writing from UC Riverside. He is currently at work on a collection of short essays as well as a novel in verse.
