He worked under the helm of his mother, then CCWS director (and later UST writer-in-residence) and renowned poet Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta.
Her first collection of poems, Montage, won the Iowa State University Best Poetry Award (1969), and first prize (poetry category) in the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1974).
Ophelia | Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará | Ophelia (painting) | Ophelia (character) | Battle of Alcântara (1580) | Al Dimalanta | Alcântara (Lisbon) | Alcántara | Swamp Ophelia | San Pedro de Alcántara | Order of Alcántara | Alcântara | Rafa Alcântara | Pierre d'Alcantara Charles Marie, duc d'Arenberg | Pierre d'Alcantara Charles | Ophelia's Shadow | Ophelia Ford | Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta | Julio Alcantara | Francis Casey Alcantara | Dying Like Ophelia | Carlos Alcántara Vilar | Battle of Alcantara (1706) | Battle of Alcântara | Alcantara (material) | Alcântara, Maranhão | Alcantara |