Selected Writing
CHAPBOOK
• And Yet Held — Bull City Press (2024)
• Woeman — Hawai’i Review, No. 88 Book 2 (2018)
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POEMS
• “Chet Baker’s Teeth” — The Greensboro Review (forthcoming)
• “North Star” — Postcard Lit (forthcoming)
• “Love Poem as Nestea Plunge Commercial” — The Cortland Review (forthcoming)
• “Self-Portrait With & Against” — ART SICK by The Poetry Lab (Issue 1)
• “at swim” and “Leap” — Outskirts (Issue 03, Summer 2026)
• “still life of my father cooking breakfast” — Puerto del Sol (Spring 2026)
• Eight Poems (“Brown Girl Dreams of Arson,” “RAGE INCANTATION,” “what could I possibly offer this ruptured world,” “Let my joy make the empire nervous,” “and what shall we do, we who did not die” [I, II, III], and “Brown Girl Theology”) — The Rumpus (May 2026)
• “Chronicle of My Thirty-Eighth Year” — Guernica (April 2026)
• “Last instructions before the time machine disappeared with its traveler” and “Chronicle of My Thirty-Seventh Year” — The Boiler (Winter 2025/Summer 2026)
• “Seat 19, Left Side, Row J” — Sundog Lit (Issue 28)
• “occasionally something great happens just by itself” — TIMBER (Issue 16.1, Winter 2026)
• “What I Mean to Say is This isn’t About Aliens” — Variant Literature (2026)
• “Into the tomb which houses my body which houses my life” and “At Last Obscura” — Poetry Northwest (2026)
• “self-study” — Sixth Finch (Winter 2026)
• “Fish Bones” and “dirty” — Equatorial (Issue Eight)
• “Salt” — West Trade Review (Volume 16, Winter 2025)
• “Ode to the persimmon on the kitchen counter on the eve of your birthday” — Crab Creek Review (Fall/Winter 2025)
• “Self-Portrait as Fittonia” — Small Orange Journal (Winter 2025)
• “Ways a Brown Girl Inhabits Herself,” and “Letter to a Sampaloc Tree” — diode poetry journal (Volume 18, Number 3)
• “We Teach Each Other How to Pray” — Pleiades (Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 2025)
• “Enthralled” — Epiphany (Desire & Dread, Spring/Summer 2025)
• “My Sister Tells Me She Doesn’t Understand Why Anyone Will Love Her” — The Los Angeles Review (June 2025)
• “Self-Portrait as Bougainvillea” — Bellingham Review (Issue 90)
• “Thief,” “Curious about the abyss, we tried to give it our heart,” and “We Teach Each Other How to Stay” — Waxwing (Issue XXXIII, Spring 2025)
• “Chronicle of My Thirty-Sixth Year” and “Pilgrim” — Frozen Sea (Issue Seven, February 2025)
• “my father takes me through the garden” — Room (Volume 47.4, 2024)
• “I will give you the fat from the milkfish’s belly.” and “Crossing the streets of Hà Nội” — Salt Hill Journal (Issue 52)
• “living room spacetime” and “Aubade” — Shō Poetry Journal (No. 6, Winter 2024/25)
• “Bellow” — Rust & Moth (Winter 2024)
• “Gargantuan” — Narrative (2024)
• “Leaving Tsim Sha Tsui” — RHINO (2024)
• “Someday I Want to Have the Courage of Old People Who Ask Strangers Countless Questions” — ANMLY (Issue #38)
• “Alone with Billie Holiday at the End of the World” — Hunger Mountain Review (Issue 29, Winter 2024)
• “Subterranean” — Five South (November 2023)
• “Talisman” — Birdcoat Quarterly (December 2022)
• “Tea for Two Cha Cha” and “Fist” — Crazyhorse (November 2022)
• “The shape of rapture” — Hobart After Dark (September 2022)
• “The Last Time” — Pleiades (Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2022)
• “Balloon” — Split Lip Magazine (April 2022)
• “Fog Physics” and “Discompopulated” — West Trestle Review (March/April 2022)
• “Monsters” — Cordite Poetry Review (February 2021)
• “The Great Tree” — Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (March 2017)
• “Art Oops” — Rabbit Catastrophe Review (2016)
• “An Ending, A Beginning” and “Kayumanggi” — Hawai’i Review (2016)
• Excerpts from “These Days” — Verses Typhoon Yolanda: A Storm of Filipino Poets (2014)
• “Bautismo” — Latay sa Isipan: Mga Bagong Tulang Filipino (2007)
• “Fireplace” and “Lola Rosa” — Philippine Free Press (2007)
• “Bago Matulog,” “Kung Paano Ko Naaalala ang Pagdadalaga,” and “Pagtanda” — Philippine Graphic (2007)
• “Hayskul” and “Flower Girl” — Dapitan (2007)
• “Maaga akong tinuruan tungkol sa disiplina” — Heights (2006)
• “Sermon” — Heights (2005)
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Honours Received
2026
Finalist for “Brown Girl Dreams of Arson,” The Arkansas International C.D. Wright Poetry Prize
Semifinalist, Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry, The Adroit Journal
Finalist for “I beg what I love and I leave to forgive me,” Expedition Press Broadside Contest
2025
Best of the Net Nominee for “Chronicle of My Thirty-Sixth Year”
Nominated for “living room space-time,” Best Spiritual Literature
Honourable Mention for 2025 ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year Prize
Finalist for “We Teach Each Other How to Pray,” 2025 Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize
Semifinalist for “Thirty Five” and “Thirty Seven,” Sundress Publication Broadside Contest
2024
Finalist for “Leaving Tsim Sha Tsui,” 2024 RHINO Founders Prize
2021
Finalist and Longlist for “Balloon,” 2021 Sappho Prize, Palette Poetry
2016
Notable Manuscript (shortlisted) for “The Body is A Map, Upon Which All Nations are Lost,” 2016 BOAAT Chapbook Competition, BOAAT Press
2007
First Place, Poetry in Filipino, Maningning Miclat Poetry Awards
Creative Writing, Poetry, Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts, Ateneo de Manila University
2006
First Place, Poetry, Timpalak Tula, Ateneo de Manila University
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Fellowships / Workshops / etc
2025
VONA Summer Fellow, PAWA Scholar
Class of January 2025, In Surreal Life, founded by Shira Erlichman
2024
Class of January 2024 / Class of October 2024, In Surreal Life, founded by Shira Erlichman
2022
Class of April 2022 (Scholar), In Surreal Life, founded by Shira Erlichman
2006
Fellow for Filipino Poetry, 6th Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP) National Writers Workshop
2005
Fellow for Filipino Poetry, 11th Ateneo Heights Writers Workshop
