Awards and Features
Awards
Otherwise Award Fellow (2022)
The 27th Loyola Schools Awards for the Arts for Creative Writing (Fiction)(2020)
The 2020 University of Sto. Tomas National Writers Workshop Fellow for English Short Stories (2020)
The 25th Ateneo HEIGHTS Writers Workshop Fellow for Fiction in English (2020)
Features
SOAS University of London, ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) Lit Fest on “Telling Our Colonial Story” (September 21, 2023)
Nylon Manila, “This Pinay-written queer fantasy komik is getting a global manga release.”
The Philippine Star, “Champion of the Rose may be the upcoming queer Filipino fantasy comics of your dreams.”
Spot.ph, “10 Gorgeous Filipino Comics That We Also Need to See as Animated Series.”
Manila Bulletin, “Pride 2021: Queering Philippine comics.”
The Philippine Star, “‘A multitude of identities’ – celebrate life and love with these LGBTQ+ komiks.”
Scout Magazine, “We ask creatives about finding work-passion balance through self-publishing.”
Academia
Erasmus Mundus International Master in Children’s Literature, Media, and Culture, with distinction from University of Glasgow (United Kingdom), Aarhus University (Denmark), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, University of British Columbia, Tilburg University, and Wroclaw University (2021-2023)
The Anti-Empire Book Club for the Children’s Literature in A Diverse World course, in collaboration with Samuel Hayes
Berghahn Books’ Worlds of Memory series: “Twice Removed: Mnemonic Articulation and the Mystery of Manila’s Missing Comfort Woman Monument” in De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places, co-authored with Dr. Jocelyn Martin. (2023)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: “The role of space, place and materialities in the field of Reading Promotion: preliminary reflections for elaborating a framework” with Cristina Correro, Cristina Aliagas, Leonor Castelo, and the 2023 Erasmus Mundus CLMC Barcelona track at the Spaces, Places and Materialities in Research on Childhoods Workshop (2023)
Nottingham Trent University: “Twice Removed: Mnemonic Articulation and the Mystery of Manila’s Missing Comfort Woman Monument” at the Grassroots Activism in History and Memory Conference. (2022)
Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association:“The EDSA People Power Revolution As Canonized in Philippine Children's Picture Books” at the Memory, Modernity, Memory, and Asian Childhood International Conference. (2021)
National Central Library, Taiwan: “To Remember Everything, to Remember Always: The Writing of Trauma as Working-Through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny” at the Gendering Transformations Conference. (2021)
Ateneo de Manila University: Bachelor of Arts in Literature (English) (2016-2020)