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Lilia Quindoza Santiago was a


writer and academic in the
Philippines. She was named
Makata ng Taon, "Poet of the
Year," in 1989, and wrote the
prize-winning novel Ang
Kaulayaw ng Agila.

Lilia Quindoza
Santiago
Santiago was a ·She teaches Her academic
prolific writer. Philippine work focused on
·an award-winning Literature at the languages of the
writer who teaches University of Philippines as
and does research on the Philippines.
well as gender
Philippine languages,
and sexuality
popular cultures and
studies.
literatures.

·Quindoza Santiago is
considered one of the more
prolific Filipino authors,
writing over 20 books over
the course of her long career
as a poet, prose writer, and
academic.

·Filipina I: Poetry, Drama, Fiction (1984)


· Filipina II: An Anthology of Contemporary Women Writers in the Philippines (1985),
·Women Empowering Communication: A Resource Book on Women and the
Globalization of Media (1994),
·Tales of Courage & Compassion: Stories of Women in the Philippine Revolution
(1997)
·Sa Ngalan ng Ina (In the Name of the Mother): 100 Years of Philippine Feminist
Poetry, 1889-1989 (2002)
·Sexuality and the Filipina (2007)
·Filipino Poetry and Martial Law 1970-1987: Clenched Fists and Yellow Ribbons
(2016).
Sa Ngalan Ng Ina (1997), by prize-winning poet-critic Lilia Quindoza Santiago, is, to
date, the most comprehensive compilation of feminist writing in the Philippines.
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Short
Stories,
Poetry,
Novel,
Essay
The director of the
Bienvenido N. Santos
Creative Writing and
Research Center at De
La Salle University.

MARJORIE EVASCO

is a Filipina poet. She writes in two


is an award- languages: English and
Cebuano-Visayan
winning Filipino
a supporter of
poet, women's rights,
born in Maribojoc, especially of women
Bohol on writers.
September 21, 1953. Marjorie Evasco is one
of the earliest Filipina
feminist poets

Evasco's poetry books


are: Dreamweavers:
Selected Poems 1976-
1986 (1987) and Ochre
Tones: Poems in English
and Cebuano (1999).

"Dreamweavers" was launched in 1987 at the UP Writers Workshop


in Diliman, Quezon City, in Tagbilaran City, and in Dumaguete City at
the Sillman University National Writers Workshop.
Evasco calls this volume a " book of changes," following
Dreamweavers which for her was a " book of origins.
Her other poetry collections are "Skin of Water" poems in English
with their Spanish translations done by Filipino, Spanish, and Latin-
American translators; and "Peces de luz/ Fishes of Light," a volume
of tanrenga in English and Spanish with Venezuelan-Cuban poet
Alex Fleites.

A Legacy of Light: 100 Years of Sun Life in the Philippines, Six Women
Poets: Inter/Views (co-authored, with Edna Manlapaz),
Kung Ibig Mo: Love Poetry by Women (co-edited with Benilda Santos)
A Life Shaped by Music: Andrea O. Veneracion and the Philippine Madrigal
Singers
ANI: The Life and Art of Hermogena Borja Lungay, Boholano Painter, and
"Valentina's Valor: Stories from the Life and Times of Valentina Galido
Plaza."
She has written many essays on women's poetry, several of them finding
their place in various anthologies.

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