THE REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO RAYMUNDO MATA
(Excerpt)
by Gina Apostol
 She was born in Manila and grew up in Tacloban.
 She graduated from UP and earned Master’s Degree in
Creative Writing.
 Her American debut novel “Gun Dealers Daughter”
won the 2018 PEN/OPEN Book Award.
PADRE FAURA WITNESSES THE EXECUTION OF RIZAL
by Danton Remoto
 A Filipino writer, essayist, reporter, editor, columnist
and professor.
 A first-prize recipient of the ASEAN Letter Writing
Contest for Young People
THE SAFE HOUSE
by Sandra Nicole Roldan
 A teacher of Literature and Creative Writing.
 She won the Philippine Free Press Literary Award for
Essay.
LENGUA PARA DIABLO (THE DEVIL ATE MY WORDS)
(Excerpt from Banana Heart Summer)
by Merlinda Bobis
 Award-winning writer who grew up in Albay,
Philippines.
 She has a Bachelor of Arts (Summa cum Laude) from
Aquinas University of Legazpi and a Master of Arts in
Literature from the University of Sto. Tomas, Manila.
 For ten years, she taught literature and English at
Philippine universities before coming to Australia in
1991 on a study grant.
 She completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the
University of Wollongong where she taught creative
writing for more than twenty years.
PRELUDES
by Daryll Delgado
 Her first novel, Remains, is forthcoming (2018) from
Ateneo de Naga University Press. Her book, After the
Body Displaces Water won the 32nd Philippine National
Book Award/Manila Critics Circle award for best book
of short fiction in English, and was a finalist in the 2013
Madrigal-Gonzales First Book Award.
 She has received a Philippines Free Press award for
her fiction in 2010.
 She works for an international NGO, and writes global
reports on labour and human right issues.
JUSTICE
by Ralph Semino Galan
 He teaches literature, humanities and writing subjects
at the Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Sto.
Tomas.
 He graduated magna cum laude in AB English major in
Literature degree from the Mindanao State University
– Iligan Institute of Technology.
 His poems in English and Filipino have won prizes from
the Philippine Panorama (1993) and Home Life
Magazine (1998) poetry contest.
TURBAN LEGEND
(Excerpt from Leche)
by R. Zamora Limmark
 A poet, novelist, and playwright who was born in
Manila and has lived in Honolulu, Madrid and Tokyo.
 He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Hawaii at Manoa.
 His books include the poetry collections Prime Time
Apparitions (2005), The Evolution of Sigh (2008), and
Drive-by Vigils (2011) and the novels Rolling the R’s
(1995), which Linmark adapted for the stage in 2008,
and Leche (2011).
 His writing often deals with Filipino-American
stereotypes.
 He was awarded a fellowship from the Japan-United
States Friendship Commission and Fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright
Foundation.
WAITING
by Ron Darvin
 Ron Darvin is a Lecturer and Vanier Scholar at the
Language and Literacy Education Department of the
University of British Columbia.
 His research examines the social and educational
trajectories of migrant Filipino youth, and the
intersection of race, ethnicity, and social class in
multicultural Canada.
 A recipient of the 2017 LSP SIG Emerging Scholar
Award of the American Educational Research
Association (AERA).
 He is the author of the short play Waiting that touches
on issues of long-term family separation and
reunification.
CRONULLA BEACH
by Jose Wendell Capili
 Professor Jose Wendell P. Capili obtained degrees
from UST, UP Diliman, University of Tokyo, University
of Cambridge and The Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies (now School of Culture, History &
Language, College of Asia and the Pacific) of The
Australian National University, where he earned his
PhD on the Emergence of Southeast Asian Diaspora
Writers in Australia from 1972 to 2007.
 He published 7 books and over 300 articles in Asia,
Europe, North America and Australia. He received
Carlos Palanca, Cultural Center of the Philippines and
National Book Awards for Literature as well as
scholarships, grants and fellowships from Japanese,
Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, Hong Kong,
Philippine, Australian, British and US governments.
 He was a recipient of the UP Diliman Gawad
Chancellor, UP Carlos P. Romulo Professorial Chair,
UP International Publication Award, UP Centennial
Professorial Chair and One UP Professorial Chair for
Teaching and Research.
 He is Professor of English, Creative Writing and
Comparative Literature, UP Diliman and Assistant Vice
President for Public Affairs (Internal Communication
and Cultural Programs), University of the Philippines
System.
FLICKERFADEGONE
by Carljoe Javier
 Carljoe Javier was born on September 7, 1981. He
received his BA in English Studies, major in Creative
Writing, from the University of the Philippines-Diliman
in 2004. He has been a fellow for fiction in the UP and
Dumaguete National Writers Workshops, as well as a
participant in the Panitikabataan Youth Literary
Conference in 2004. His fiction and creative non-fiction
have won various campus accolades, including the
Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Literary Awards and the
Supernatural Story-Writing contest sponsored by the
Institute of Creative Writing.
 His short stories have appeared in anthologies and
textbooks. They have also frequented magazines such
as the Free Press, Philippine Graphic , and Fudge . His
essays, film and music reviews, and other non-fiction
pieces have been published in several periodicals
including Manila Bulletin, Daily Tribune, Diliman Diary,
Games Master, Extra Music, and Speed .