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'''Edilberto K. Tiempo''' taught fiction and literary criticism for four years in two American schools, was asked to stay permanently, but opted to return to [[Silliman University]] where he has taught literary criticism and creative writing for a third of a century. He founded the [[Silliman National Writers Workshop]] in 1962, the first in [[Asia]], which has been in operation since then. At Silliman University, he has been department chair, graduate school dean, vice-president for academic affairs, and writer-in-residence.
For his [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] [[thesis]] at the [[University of Iowa]] where he was a writing fellow at the [[Iowa Writers Workshop]] for four years and concurrently a [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]] fellow in his fourth year, he submitted a novel, ''"Cry Slaughter,"'' which had four printings by [[HarperCollins|Avon]] in New York, a hardbound edition in London, and six European translations.
As a [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim]] writing fellow, he submitted a collection of short stories, ''"A Stream at Dalton Pass and Other Stories,"'' for his [[Ph.D.]] in [[English]] at the [[University of Denver]]. This collection won a prize at the at the same time that his second novel, ''"More Than Conquerors"'' won the first prize for the novel.
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