Ambuscade by Brian Ascalon Roley ***Winner of the 2020 Open Chapbook Comp.***

Brian Ascalon Roley is a writer and professor of Philippine and American descent. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Djerassi Foundation, Ragdale, the VCCA and others. His widely taught work includes THE LAST MISTRESS OF JOSE RIZAL (Northwestern University Press) and AMERICAN SON: A Novel (W.W. Norton), which was a New York Times  Notable Book,  Los Angeles Times  Best Book, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist, and winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award, among other honors. His fiction, poetry and literary essays have appeared in numerous journals and in anthologies published by Norton (Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience), Penguin (Charlie Chan is Dead 2) and elsewhere, including several bestselling books in the Philippines.  He is Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. More info at www.brianroley.com