R. A. Villanueva

R. A. Villanueva is a Filipino American poet. His debut collection, Reliquaria, won the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is a founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.

He was born in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Villanueva's writing has appeared online at Guernica, Prac Crit, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency as well as in print publications, including Poetry, the American Poetry Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and Rattle.

His honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Literary Review.

• Reliquaria. University of Nebraska Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8032-7652-9. 

• Liu, Kenji (March 14, 2015). "Reliquaria by R. A. Villanueva". Retrieved April 29, 2015. In a time when sustained engagement with a text seems to be devalued, this collection is one to read not just for pleasure, but also for intellectual sustenance.