I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
August 2022 to present.
Currently
Formerly
Student Lecturer, First and Second Year Filipino
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2021-2022
PA for the Program in Creative Writing; Assistant Instructor for First and Second Year Filipino
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2020-2021
Library Assistant and Writing Consultant
Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart | 2019-2020
Instructor, Introduction to College Composition and Introduction to Creative Writing
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2017-2019
Collections Management Officer
Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, Inc | 2016-2017
Contributing Writer
CNN Philippines Life | 2016-Present
Intern, Public Programs and Education Department
López Museum and Library | 2015-2016
Copyeditor
Raceday Magazine | 2013
Library Assistant, GT-Toyota Asian Center
University of the Philippines-Diliman | 2012-2013
MLIS, The Information School
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2020-2022
MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry, Program in Creative Writing
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2017-2019
BA in Comparative Literature: Philippine Literature in English and English Translation
University of the Philippines-Diliman | 2011-2015
Education
Nice Things
Winner, Anania Poetry Prize
University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago, IL | 2024
Creative Writing Fellow for Poetry
Luminarts Cultural Foundation; Chicago, IL | 2024
Fellow, Working Poets Project
The Dalton School; New York, NY | 2020
Finalist, Laux/Millar Poetry Prize
Raleigh Review; Raleigh, NC | 2020
Runner-up, Rising Writer Contest (Judge: Yona Harvey)
Autumn House Press; Pittsburgh, PA | 2020
Finalist, Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing and Publishing
CSU Poetry Center; Cleveland, OH | 2020
Second Place, Editors’ Prize
RHINO; Evanston, IL | 2020
Winner, Inaugural Editors’ Prize
Bear Review; Kansas City, MO | 2019
Alumnus, Tin House Summer Workshop
Portland, OR | 2019 and 2020
Finalist, Citizen Literary Fellowship
Graywolf Press; Minneapolis, MN | 2019
Finalist, Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize (Judge: Tarfia Faizullah)
Passages North, Northern Michigan University; Marquette, MI | 2019
Semi-finalist, Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
Provincetown, MA | 2019
Jerome Stern Teaching Award
Program in Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, WI | 2019
Don Belton Scholar, Indiana University Writers’ Conference
Bloomington, IN | 2019
1st Place for Poetry, Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Literary Prize
University of the Philippines Diliman; Quezon City, Philippines | 2015
In the Fall of 2020 and Spring of 2021, I hosted Wisconsin Wednesdays for the Wisconsin Book Festival, with the support of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Program in Creative Writing.
Video recordings of the events are archived online:
2020
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & Leila Chatti (22 September)
Elizabeth Ames Staudt & Meg Wade (21 October)
Traci Brimhall & Lauren Russell (28 October)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (11 November)
Aria Aber & Elizabeth Powell (18 November)
2021
Ladee Hubbard & Dantiel W. Moniz (17 February)
James Crews, Chekwube Danladi, Rachel Swearingen, & Angela Voras-Hills (3 March)
Jesse Lee Kercheval & Mark Wunderlich (7 April)
Amaud Jamaul Johnson & John Murillo (14 April)
John Brehm, Ambalila Hemsell, Sarah Kortemeier, & Bruce Snider (28 April)
Barrett Swanson (19 May)
Clemonce Heard & Tomás Q. Morín (22 October)