Born to Ermelina Palanca Neri and Frederick Rosauro Kesner II at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital in Espaņa, Manila. Frederick is the eldest of five children. He spent his childhood between San Juan del Monte and Coron, Palawan, attending Aquinas School (San Juan) and later the University of Santo Tomas (Manila). After a brief career in island missions he taught kindergarten and highschool English. As part of the language faculty at St. Augustine Academy (Coron), he published with his senior English class Into Janus, a collection of selected creative writing exercises throughout that schoolyear, 1991-92.
In 1998 he received a degree in theology at the Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries (ASCM, Makati City). In the same year he married Jacqueline Maryorick Diaz-Gandolfo in Brisbane, Australia. The couple returned to the seminary to pursue and complete their masters of arts degrees at the Makati City campus of ASCM. From 2000-2005 they worked in youth ministry in the Macarthur region of south-Sydney. They have now returned home to Ipswich (west Brisbane) and are proud parents to their firstborn child, Kayla Jaclyn Kesner.
Frederick Kesner's collected earlier poems are found in two volumes, Waking Up to Self and Eye Soar. He also authored a selection of short poetry and haiku in Tagalog, Sa Pag-Angil ng Uwak. Mr. Kesner has also authored several works of short fiction, unpublished essays, and novels. Several of Frederick's poems have been featured in the Australian literary journal The Curious Record and the Stylus Poetry Journal.
These are the barest of facts about me for anything more is too much to bear
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