Conchitina Cruz is the author of Dark Hours (winner of the Philippine National Book Award for Poetry), elsewhere held and lingered, There is no emergency, and Modus. She is also the author of Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production. She holds a PhD from State University of New York (SUNY) Albany and teaches creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She also produces and publishes zines and co-runs the Quezon City-based small press Paper Trail Projects.

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