Story Collection
THE LAST MISTRESS OF JOSE RIZAL & Other Stories
was released by Curbstone / Northwestern University Press
Written with much appreciated support from the University of Cambridge, the Djerassi Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Award
Lawrence Foundation Prize
Stories appeared in North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Asian American Literature Review, Best Contemporary Filipino Novelists (Manila Envelop 4), Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction from the Multiracial Experience (W.W. Norton), and elsewhere.
"Roley's debut in FilAm literature--in American literature, more properly--was auspicious and important. He dramatized (for the first time in novel form, I believe) the plight of thoroughly assimilated and Americanized immigrant young men of Philippine ancestry...American Son is brilliantly written. Roley is one of the most adept writers I have read at using spare descriptions for crisp characterization...
Roley's The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal is an appearance equally auspicious to American Son: a demonstration of the prowess of this writer in the middle of a strong literary career. ..Roley’s American Son and The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal should be required reading..."
Professor Vince Gotera, poet and long time editor emeritus of the North American Review
