Ricardo M. de Ungria's book, Voices on the Waters: Conversations with Five Mindanao Writers, was just published by the Ateneo de Manila Press. He makes his home in Davao City, Mindanao, where he is currently finishing the book's sequel. [Cha Profile]

 

Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist from Cebu, Philippines. He received an MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and an MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of the poetry collection The Highest Hiding Place (Ateneo de Manila University Press) and a co-editor of We Might as Well Call it the Lyric Essay (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press). He is completing a manuscript of poems on early twentieth century Cebuano photographs and teaches poetry and creative writing at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. [Cha Profile]