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Imran Hashim fell in love with France a little late in life (in his teens) but made up for it by studying French with a vengeance at university, and then going on to the Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris for postgraduate studies. Apart from providing the inspiration for his first novel, his time in Paris was a period of self-discovery, chief amongst which was an undying love for pear tarts with chocolate bits inside.

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Sigrid Marianne Gayangos

Sigrid Marianne Gayangos is a Filipino writer from Zamboanga City. She is the author of "Laut: Stories," a National Book Award finalist, and "Lola Maria’s Candles," a forthcoming bilingual children's book. In 2021, she won the NCCA’s Writers Prize for Fiction, enabling her to complete a collection of short stories in Chavacano, which she is currently translating into English. Gayangos teaches at the University of the Philippines Mindanao and focuses on themes of queer love, identity, and cultural heritage in her works

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Yasmine El Rashidi

Yasmine El Rashidi is a Cairo-based writer. She is a 2015-2016 Cullman Center Fellow at The New York Public Library. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books as well as a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. She lives in Cairo and New York City.

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Jose F. Lacaba

Jose Maria Flores Lacaba, Jr., better known as Jose F. Lacaba and Pete Lacaba, is a Filipino poet, journalist, and screenwriter. He was conferred the Aruna Vasudev Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Cinema during 10th Osian's Cinefan Festival held in New Delhi, India on 11 July 2008.

He is currently[when?] the executive editor of Summit Media's YES! Magazine.

His screenplay credits include Jaguar, This Is My Country, Fight for Us, Sister Stella L., Eskapo, Segurista, and Rizal in Dapitan.

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Richard Bolisay

Richard Bolisay is the author of Break It to Me Gently: Essays on Filipino Film (2019) and Nothing Deep (2022), and the editor of Daang Dokyu: A Festival of Philippine Documentaries (2020). As a writer, film critic, and programmer, he has participated in film festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Hong Kong, Jeonju, Berwick, Edinburgh, Brighton, Cebu, and Manila.

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Jade Mark Capiñanes

Jade Mark Capiñanes is a Filipino writer. He is the author of the short story collection How to Grieve, published in 2022.

He won 3rd Prize in the Essay Category of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2017 and 2024. He was a fellow for novella at the 2025 UP National Writers Workshop, for poetry at the 2023 Iyas National Writers Workshop, and for creative nonfiction at the 2019 Ateneo National Writers Workshop, 2017 University of Santo Tomas National Writers Workshop, and 2016 Davao Writers Workshop.

Born and raised in Davao City, he is currently taking his MFA in Creative Writing at De La Salle University in Manila.

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Arlene J. Chai

Arlene J. Chai (b. 1955) is a Filipino-Chinese-Australian who migrated to Australia with her parents and sisters in 1982 because of the political upheaval. She became an advertising copywriter at George Patterson's advertising agency in 1972 and has been working there since. It is there that she met her mentor Bryce Courtney, who continuously inspires her to improve her work.

She won the Louis Braille Adult Audio Book of the year for her novel "On the Goddess Rock" in 1999.

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John Bengan

John Bengan is a writer and translator from the Philippines whose work has appeared in Likhaan, Kritika Kultura, BooksActually's Gold Standard, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Words Without Borders, LIT, Shenandoah, and World Literature Today. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. A recipient of a Ford Foundation International Fellowship, he has won prizes from the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for his short fiction. He lives in Davao City.

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