EILEEN RAMOS is a bipolar Filipina American writer and mental health advocate. An alum of the women of color theater production, In Full Color, she performs monologues based on her psychoses to break the mental illness stigma. She is the Events Coordinator for the biannual lit publication, The Asian American Literary Review. As well as a member of the mass-based Filipina women activist organization, GABRIELA New York, though she hails from Jersey. Go deeper:
www.vitalendeavor.wordpress.comLIS P. SIPIN-GABON [formerly published as Melissa R. Sipin] is a writer with C-PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), hailing from Carson, CA. They’ve won fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Poets & Writers, Inc., and Kundiman, and their work has been published in Washington Square Review, Guernica Magazine, and Prairie Schooner, among others. They’re hard at work on a novel inspired by their great-grandmother’s capture in WWII Philippines and their recovery of repressed memories as a survivor of intergenerational trauma. More at
www.msipin.com.
MT VALLARTA is a DID survivor, poet, and Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where they research feminist theory, queer theory, and Filipinx poetics. Their dissertation, Knowing, Feeling: Towards a Queer Filipinx Poetics, examines contemporary poetry by queer, trans, and non-binary Filipinx artists, and explores how this body of work functions as a conduit for transformative change. A Kundiman Fellow, their poetry can be found in Nat. Brut, Apogee Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, and TAYO Literary Magazine, while their scholarship and book reviews are published and forthcoming in The Velvet Light Trap, VICE, and Weird Sister.
