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Pocholo Anton Torres
A digital content overlord, freelance writer, and copy editor from Las Piñas City, Metro Manila.
He graduated with an AB in Literature at the University of Santo Tomas and is forever finishing his MA thesis in English Studies, Major in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. His professional experience includes teaching at the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters and honing relevant skillsets in content marketing and operations management at a digital marketing agency in Makati.
About
Immersed as a web copy writer and content production manager in the digital marketing industry, he describes himself as results-oriented, data-driven, and time-tested — to share the same vision like a prophet — but with a cup of coffee in one hand and a divine object in the other.
When he’s not trying to make a living, he spends his time figuring out the path to a Meaningful Life; reimagining its realities in short stories, writing on walls to feel alive, and catching the right tempo on the drums; to find a place for this beating.
He grew up a hoophead (even when his height has always disagreed) and watched his favorite NBA player, the greatest Timberwolf ever — Kevin “the Big Ticket” Garnett — win the MVP and eventually bring home the Larry. Anything is possible!!!
He enjoys managing a Fantasy hoops league, playing video games, building model kits, throwing money at his 20-year-old Civic, and reading stories by Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Haruki Murakami, Gina Apostol, and Jennifer Egan. And if there were only three albums that he could listen to (no skips allowed) — hands down — it’s Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), RATM’s Rage Against The Machine (1992), and UdD’s Fragmented (2006).
Projects
A fellow for fiction in the UST Creative Writing and Varsitarian Fiction Workshops, his stories have been published in Dapitan, BUKLOD, Love Notes, and online spaces such as Transit Dialog.
He has also served as a panelist in the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators 2015 Conference “Against the Grain: Dissidence, Dissonance and Difference” and the 2014 Fiction Workshop for Creative Writing at the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters.
As a digital content and marketing copy writer, his guest blogs and on-page copy have helped micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSME’s) bring food to the table by improving their website’s search engine rankings for over hundreds of campaigns. Whenever given the opportunity, he enjoys writing articles on graffiti, sneakers, and pop culture.
While as the content production manager of a white label digital marketing agency, he has had the opportunity to work with various teams and collaborate with different departments, building an ops team with the capacity to deliver an average of 3000+ content pieces every month.
In 2013, Hereswith, his now defunct pop-punk band, released Overture of the Hunting, a seven-track EP on brooding metaphors that tell stories of love and loss. He now plays the drums and percussions for Algo, an office rock band project.
Feel free to visit his blogs for Truelogic, Modern Filipina, and Nuptials PH.
