She obtained her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her poems have won prizes in the inaugural Rhonda Gail Williford Award for Poetry and in Cha Journal Poetry Contest, respectively. Her first poetry collection Coming Home to the Island (XU Press, 2022) won the Philippine Literary Arts Council Prize in the 41st National Book Awards, and was a finalist in the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award in 2023. In 2021, she spearheaded a literary anthology project, Tinubdan (XU Press, 2021), where she proposes a region-oriented paradigm in viewing emerging literary voices. The book was a Finalist in the Best Anthology category at the National Book Awards in 2023. Her literary works have also been anthologized in Mindanao Harvest, Tomas, Voice and Verse, Future Lovecraft, and A Treat of 100 Short Shories. Currently, she’s teaching at the Department of English Language and Literature, XU where she also served as Founding Editor of the Carayan Journal. Aside from poetry, her interests include local literatures, translation, and ecocritical perspectives, some of which she explored in papers that were presented in national and international conferences.

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