Poems
Selected Writing
CHAPBOOK
• And Yet Held — Bull City Press (2024)
• Woeman — Hawai’i Review, No. 88 Book 2 (2018)
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POEMS
• “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
2021
Finalist and Longlist for “Balloon”, 2021 Sappho Prize, Palette Poetry (United States)
2016
Notable Manuscript (shortlisted) for “The Body is A Map, Upon Which All Nations are Lost,” 2016 BOAAT Chapbook Competition, BOAAT Press (United States)
2007
First Place, Poetry in Filipino, Maningning Miclat Poetry Awards (Philippines)
Creative Writing, Poetry, Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
2006
First Place, Poetry, Timpalak Tula, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
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Fellowships
2022
Fellow, In Surreal Life Class of April 2022, founded by Shira Erlichman
2006
Fellow for Filipino Poetry, 6th Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP) National Writers Workshop (Philippines)
2005
Fellow for Filipino Poetry, 11th Ateneo Heights Writers Workshop (Philippines)