Joyce Roque is a Palanca-award winning writer and lecturer based in Manila. Before the pandemic, she loved to travel all over the Philippines with Batanes, Bohol and Sicogon Islands being some of her favorite destinations.
M.J. Cagumbay Tumamac (Xi Zuq) is a recipient of the PBBY Salanga Writers Prize in 2013, the National Children’s Book Award in 2014 and 2016, and the Makata ng Taon award from the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino in 2019.
Edgar Calabia Samar is a Palanca, NCCA Writer's Prize, and National Book Awards winning poet and novelist from San Pablo City, Philippines.