Saint Louis Boys High School 1963
He attended the Iowa International Writing Program in 1985
He won a British Council fellowship in 1992 to study contemporary British poetry at the University of London's Birkbeck College and modern literary theory at Oxford University.
Participated in the International Writers' Residence at Le Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland in 2006.
He has been invited to the 2007 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia.
Maranan has won a total of 30 Carlos Palanca literary prizes for his works in English and Filipino in various genres, and was inducted into the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame in 2000.
He has garnered awards in other competitions such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines literary contest and writing grants, Amado V. Hernandez Playwriting Competition, Institute of National Language poetry competition, Filamore Tabios Sr. Memorial Prize for Poetry, Philippines Free Press Literary Awards, Philippine Graphic Nick Joaquin Literary Awards, and the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY)-Alfrredo Navarro Salanga Writers Prize which he won three years in a row.
His book of translation, Kudaman: Isang Epiko ng Palawan na Inawit ni Usuy (Ateneo Press, with Dr. Nicole Revel McDonald), won a National Book Award in 1992.
From 1993 to 2006, Maranan worked as Foreign Information Officer of the Philippine Embassy in London, and published The Philippine Newsletter.
Before his stint in the diplomatic service, Maranan taught Political Science at the UP College of Arts & Sciences, and graduate courses in Philippine Studies at the UP Asian Center, Diliman, Quezon City.
A native of Bauan, Batangas, he grew up in Baguio City and had his elementary and high school education.
He later went to the University of the Philippines where he finished his bachelor's degree in Foreign Service and his masteral course work in Political Science and Philippine Studies.
He is an active member of the newly formed Baguio Writers Group.
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