The Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales

Danton Remoto studied publishing s at the University of Stirling (British Council scholar) and world literature at Rutgers University (Fulbright scholar). He was also an Association of Southeast Asian Nations scholar in English Literature at Ateneo de Manila University and a research scholar in Asian Literature at the National University of Singapore. He has worked as a publishing director at Ateneo, head of communications at the United Nations Development Program, president of The Manila Times College, and head of school at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia.

He has published twelve books, including Riverrun. He translated the 1906 novel by Lope K. Santos, Banaag at Sikat, into English (Radiance and Sunrise) for the Southeast Asian Literary Classics series, as well as the novels by Amado V. Hernandez, Ibong Mandaragit (The Preying Birds) and Crocodile's Tears (Luha ng Buwaya). He is currently the News Editor of The Manila Times.

He is a co-editor of Ladlad: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing in 1994, which was the first multiauthor anthology of gay writing in Southeast Asia and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the US. His body of literary work is cited in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literature. He has been a literature fellow at the Cambridge University Summer Seminar on Contemporary Literature, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and the MacDowell Arts Residency in New Hampshire. He is now writing his third novel set in New York City as well as his fourth collection of poems. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Southeast Asia.