The Editors

Nikay Paredes is the author of the chapbook collections Reclamations (Vagabond Press, 2017) and We Will See the Scatter (dancing girl press, 2014). She is the recipient of a Loyola Schools Award for the Arts and the Maningning Miclat Poetry Prize, and of fellowships from the Ateneo Heights Writers Workshop, Iligan National Writers Workshop, and Silliman University National Writers Workshop. Born and raised in Cebu City, she immigrated to Amerika in 2016 and currently resides in Queens, New York.

Paolo Tiausas is the author of Lahat ng Nag-aangas ay Inaagnas (2020) which was a finalist for the 22nd Madrigal-Gonzales Best First Book Award and Tuwing Nag-iisa sa Mapa ng Buntong-hininga (University of the Philippines Press, 2021). The two books were nominated, respectively, at the 39th and the 40th National Book Awards, with the second one winning the category of Best Book of Poetry in Filipino for that year. In 2021, he was awarded as Makata ng Taón by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.