Career
He is an award-winning fictionist and poet, and also works as a translator. Among his awards and prizes are two third-place prizes and one second-prize prize in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial for Literature"s short story contest in the Iloko and Filipino divisions, received in 1999, 2001, and 2014 respectively. He has published most of his short stories, poems, and feature articles in Bannawag, the leading Ilokano magazine in the Philippines.
He is a native of Mabasa, Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya.