Maria Theresa Pantaleon is the daughter of Marino Pantaleon, a lawyer, and Natividad Baltazar, a nurse, in the Philippines. Her lawyer father inspired her whenever she would sit at...voir plusMaria Theresa Pantaleon is the daughter of Marino Pantaleon, a lawyer, and Natividad Baltazar, a nurse, in the Philippines. Her lawyer father inspired her whenever she would sit at the back of the courtroom hearing him speak of some familiar lines she would relate to some poems she had read. In college, she had the experience of having her poems published in the campus paper where she served as news reporter at first, then as literary and features editor.
She finished AB. journalism and took up M.A. in English literature, M.Ed. and Ed.D. major in educational management. She worked as high school journalism teacher and school paper adviser for 22 years and wrote for different publications while teaching journalism and English grammar and literature in different colleges and universities in the Philippines before coming to California.
She passed the LongRidge Writers Group writing aptitude test and was published in Todays Famous PoetsOn the Wings of Pegasus, an anthology by the Famous Poets Society of Oregon and also in another anthology by the American Poets Society of Maryland. She served as the editor of Exult Business Journal based in Anaheim, California. She is a Distinguished Member of the International Society of Poets, an Editors Choice Awardee of the International Library of Poetry with her poem published in its book. Colors of Life.
She is also published in Our 100 Most Famous PoetsBrief Chroniclers of Our Time, by the Famous Poets Society based in Oregon and the International Whos Who in Poetry by the International Library of Poetry in Maryland.
Insights is her first book of poems and its coming out in print is one of her dreams come truea fulfillment of her fathers dream, too. As well as the completion of her late husband Jans graphic work.voir moins