Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz is the Palanca award-winning author of Women Loving (2010), the first sole-author collection of lesbian-themed stories in the Philippines, which is now available in an eBook entitled Women on Fire (2015). She is Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of the Philippines Mindanao. From 2011 to 2016, she served the writing community as president of the Davao Writers Guild, which organizes readings and writers workshops in Davao City, as well as publishes new writing from Mindanao in print and on the website dagmay.online. Concurrently, she served as regional coordinator for Eastern and Southern Mindanao in the National Committee on Literary Arts. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published extensively in the Philippines. She has presented her wor
