Angela Gabrielle Fabunan is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Young Enough to Play (University of the Philippines Press 2022). She was born in the Philippines and raised in the New York City. She has attained a BA in English and American Literature from Bowdoin College (Maine, USA), and an MA in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines Diliman (Manila, Philippines). She has been a recipient of the Rutan Grant (Theater 2010) as well as the Gibbons Research Fellowship (2011). She attended the Silliman University National Writers’ Workshop (Fellow for Poetry 2015). She was the recipient of the prestigious Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (3rd Prize for Poetry 2016). Her poetry has been published in Cordite, Asian Cha, Anti-Heroin Chic, Asymptote, Ghost City, Rough Cut Press, Good Life Review, Indianapolis Review, and is forthcoming from Salt Hill Journal. Her first poetry chapbook, The Sea That Beckoned, now out-of-print, was formerly published Platypus Press, in England (2019). She was a poetry mentor for AWP's Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program Season 20, and is a guest editor on the masthead of Palette Poetry. Her book, Migratory Notes, is forthcoming from Vibal Foundation. She teaches Creative Writing at the Department of English and Literature at Silliman University. She lives with her husband in a small house in a beach town.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anïas Nin