BIOGRAPHY

Mookie KATIGBAK-LACUESTA is the author of five poetry collections: The Proxy Eros (2008), Burning Houses (2013), Hush Harbor (2017), Eros Redux (2019), and College Boy (2021). Her biofiction, Assembling Alice, was published by Penguin Random House SEA in late 2021.

She obtained an MFA from the New School University in 2004, and has since taught in major universities in Manila. Katigbak-Lacuesta has also co-edited various literary Filipino poetry anthologies for the Cordite Poetry Review and Vagabond Press. In 2019, she co-edited The Achieve Of, The Mastery, a survey of contemporary Philippine Poetry in English, with Dr. Gemino Abad.

Widely-awarded for her work in the Philippines, Katigbak-Lacuesta has also been the Filipino delegate to international literary festivals in Rotterdam, Medellín, San Francisco, Macau, and Kuala Lumpur. In 2015, she completed a writing residency for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.