Luis H. Francia is the author of several poetry collections, including The Beauty of Ghosts, Museum of Absences, and Tattered Boat. His memoir, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award and the Asian American Writers Award. He is the co-editor of Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999.