The author's fullname is Gil Lopez Gregorio Sr and is widely known in the cyberspace as geopoet.
He was born in June 24,1961 in Naga City to Parents, Antonio Hestre Gregorio who is from Sorsogon, Sorsogon (now Sorsogon City) and Virginia Sarion Lopez from Basud, Camarines Norte.
He is the eldest of eight children, namely: Arnel(Deceased) , Jeaneth, Annie, Vilma, Leny, Norman, and Devid.
He is married to Erlina Remoto Celedonio and their children are: Gil Jr (Deceased) , Jumae Frajalyn, Viktor Solomon and John Christopher. The family is now residing at San Jose, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
He finished his elementary in Bayugan Central Elementary School in Bayugan 1, Agusan Del Sur; he pursued his high school at the Agusan del Sur College in the same place and later transferred to Diatagon Catholic High School in Diatagon, Lianga, Surigao Del Sur and graduated thereat in 1978. After his high school graduation, his parents decided that it would be better for him to finish college in Naga City. He finished a course in college with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Commerce major in Accounting at the University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City. He pursued his Masters in Management at the Bicol University in Legazpi City, unfortunately, was not able to finish the course because of his resignation with the Philippine Navy.
During his stint with the Philippine Navy he became the Chief Researcher Analyst and Chief of Civilian Affairs based in Legazpi City in the Research Department of the Naval Intelligence. He eventually resigned in 1998. The following year, he taught General Sciences at the Bicol College of Agriculture in San Jose, Camarines Sur for two years.
The author's writing started sometime in 1983 when he became one of the staff writers/reporters of the Nueva Caceres Bulletin, the official publication of the University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City.
In 1999, he was writing tagalog dramas on part-time basis in one of the radio stations of the No.1 Radio Network of the Philippines, Bombo Radyo Philippines, DZNG Bombo Radyo in Naga City for its local drama production. He wrote the serialized drama entitled, 'Sunog na Batas' (Burnt Law) and eventually left drama writing in the later part of 2000.
At present, he is working at the Franknet Internet Cafe'; and a part-time instructor of Ryden International Technological Institute, Inc. and Franknet Foundation Institute, Inc. all in Goa, Camarines Sur, Philippines. And during his spare time, he writes poetry as the inspiration comes. He has already published his first poetry book entitled A VIEW FROM AFAR OFF (A POETIC LEGACY FROM HEAVEN with Andrew Byrne and his Carpe Diem Publishing company of Adelaide, Australia as the publisher.
He is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He has been translating into ordinary and simplified Bicol dialect the two of the standard books of the Church, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants (on-going) purposely for the benefit of his fellow Bicolanos.
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