Danton Remoto studied at the University of Stirling and Rutgers University, as well as at Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines. He was a Fellow at the Cambridge Summer Seminar as well as a fiction participant at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has published more than 10 books, the latest of which is "Riverrun, A Novel" (Penguin Random House, 2020).