Background
He was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in Los Angeles, United States.
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Noel Alumit
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He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Southern California and later studied playwriting at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players.
Career
He was identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine in 2002. In addition to his writing, Alumit has worked as an Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome educator with the Asian Pacific Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Intervention Team in Los Los Angeles
Achievements
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Alumit received an Emerging Voices Fellowship from Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center United States of America West and a Community Access Scholarship to University of California, Los Angeles"s Writers Extension, studying fiction and the personal essay form. He was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists" Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2010. He was appointed to the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs in 2012.
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American
Awards
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Stonewall Book Award; Quill award; the Global Filipino Literary Award
The Stonewall Book Award are a set of three literary awards that annually recognize 'exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience' in English-language books published in the U.S.The Stonewall Book Award are a set of three literary awards that annually recognize 'exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience' in English-language books published in the U.S.