Josue Mapagdalita

Josue Mapagdalita (b. 1996) is a Filipino writer. He is the author of “Mula sa Kilometer Zero” (“From the Kilometer Zero”), a collection of 40 Filipino flash fiction set in Metro Manila, Philippines. His second book, “Still Here”, a two-in-one book of journal and prose poetry for mental health, is set to be published in 2024.

Josue’s life challenges shaped his literature. Being a corporate slave prevented him from writing long forms and redirected him to writing flash fiction and prose poetry instead, both of which, according to his fellow writers, he had “mastered”. Growing up in poverty and witnessing firsthand the plight of the Filipino masses made him associate himself to literary realism; even in his romantic fiction, he subtly depicts

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