Eugene Gloria was born in Manila, Philippines in 1957 and raised in San Francisco, California.
He is the John Rabb Emison Professor of Creative and Performing Arts and Professor of English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where he teaches creative writing and English literature.
He served as the Bowling Green State University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer for the 2013 spring semester.
During the 2017 spring semester, he was a Fulbright Visiting Writer at the University of Santo Tomas Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (CCWLS).
He has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artists Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, Le Château de Lavigny in Switzerland, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and in France.