ACCOLADES & NOMINATIONS

Lessons in a cup of masala chai. Pushcart Prize 2024 nominee, Epistemic Lit (USA). November 2023.
Self-eating. Best of the Net 2024 nominee, The Hooghly Review (India). September 2023.

Killing for the gourmet. Best of the Net 2024 nominee, Janus Literary (USA). September 2023.
False poetics. Best of the Net 2024 nominee, petrichor (USA). September 2023.
How I love the world. Finalist, phoebe Spring Poetry Competition. George Mason University, Virginia (USA). May 2023.

Where The Gods Play. 2nd place, Around the World in 80 Pages Global Writing Contest (Portugal). 2017.

Becoming a Mother. 8th place, The Philippine Star My Favorite Book Contest Year 12 (Philippines). 2012.

Becoming a Daughter. Weekly finalist, The Philippine Star My Favorite Book Contest Year 10 (Philippines). 2010.

PRINT ANTHOLOGIES

A letter from a Filipina to potential foreign mates/ Ways I resist our colonizers. Memory and Freedom. San Anselmo Press (Philippines). November 2023.
Bullshit Lit Second Anthology. Bullshit Lit (USA). July 2023.
The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected: Part 2. Alien Buddha Press (USA). 2023.
Around the World in 80 Pages. Navigator Paper (Portugal). 2017.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

When I send my sexual abuse poems to Western mags, they always end up rejected. Roi Faineant Press (USA). December 2023.
Reasons why I haven’t fucked in a decade. The Hooghly Review (India). Issue 2 – October 2023.
In it. JAKE (USA). May 2023.
Questions after you said I died a million times in you. JAKE (USA). May 2023.
Buscalan and Scars of Happiness. Bulb Culture Collective (USA). May 2023.

POETRY | PROSE POEMS

41 Kilometers. Sontag Mag (USA). January 2024.
In Every Sheepfold. Sontag Mag (USA). January 2024.
Even the scarred can dream on New Year’s Eve. JAKE (USA). December 2023.
Sailing together. Coffee and Conversations Magazine (India). December 2023.
For my niece struggling with bipolar disorder. Roi Faineant Press (USA). December 2023.
I don’t like makahiya. Mister Magazine (USA). November 2023.
Distant love smells like. Mister Magazine (USA). November 2023.
I Swear.  Porch Lit Mag (Indonesia). October 2023.
Visitations. Porch Lit Mag (Indonesia). October 2023.
Weaving from Sorrow.  Porch Lit Mag (Indonesia). October 2023.
Peaks.  Koru Magazine (USA). September 2023.
Void.  Door Is A Jar Magazine (USA). Fall Issue. September 2023.
Tooth and heart. Door Is A Jar Magazine (USA). Fall Issue. September 2023.
For a friend mending grief 2,700 miles away. Barely South Review | Old Dominion University (USA). August 2023.
Lessons in a cup of masala chai. Epistemic Lit (USA). August 2023.
An alien visits Earth. Bullshit Lit Second Anthology (USA). July 2023.
The day I went cold turkey on smoking. Defunkt (USA). June 2023.
Kindness. Porch Lit Mag (Indonesia). June 2023.
Like chocolate. Porch Lit Mag (Indonesia). June 2023.
How I love this world. phoebe | George Mason University (USA). May 2023.
Meruem and Papa. The Daily Drunk (USA). May 2023.
False poetics. petrichor (USA). April 2023.
Self-eating. The Hooghly Review (India). Issue 1 – April 2023.
Vasana. The Hooghly Review (India). Issue 1 – April 2023.
Playgrounds and transitions. Asam/Garam (Malaysia). April 2023.
Killing for the gourmet. Janus Literary (USA). March 2023.
Intersect. Rat World Magazine (New Zealand). March 2023.
Writing for a prize. Rejection Letters (USA). February 2023.
Chosen family. The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected: Part 2 (USA). February 2023.
when i write. The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected: Part 2 (USA). February 2023.
In my dreams Jiro Horikoshi did not make fighter planes. The Daily Drunk (USA). February 2023.
My cat is not Baron Humbert van Gikkingen. The Daily Drunk (USA). February 2023.
How a Scorpio loves (thoughts while you were sleeping). Maudlin House (USA). January 2023
Do not come to me unless you can. DED Poetry (USA). December 2022.
A kiln for wounds. Anti-Heroin Chic (USA). December 2022.
Gandhi’s words. Manila Bulletin (Philippines). October 2019.
Shark fin. Philippines Free Press (Philippines). December 2013.

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