Noel Alumit

He was appointed to the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs in 2012.

He was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2010.

His debut novel, Letters to Montgomery Clift (MacAdam/Cage), was published in 2002, and received the 2003 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association, the Violet Quill Award from Insight Out Books, the Global Filipino Literary Award from Our Own Voice and the Gold Seal from ForeWord magazine. His second novel, Talking to the Moon, was released in late 2006 by Carroll & Graf.

His one-man show, The Rice Room: Scenes From a Bar, premiered in Santa Monica in 1999, and was later staged at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2000. It was voted one of the best solo shows of the year by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and played to sold-out houses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. He also wrote and performed another successful solo show, Master of the (Miss) Universe, at Highways Performance Art Space in Santa Monica, California. Master of the (Miss) Universe was named "Best Bet" by The Los Angeles Times.

Noël Alumit (born January 8, 1968) is an American novelist, actor, and activist. He was identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine in 2002.