YVETTE TAN is one of the Philippines’ most celebrated horror writers. Her stories “Kulog” and “Sidhi,” both in her first short fiction collection Waking the Dead and Other Stories, won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in different categories in 2003. “The Child Abandoned,” also in the same book, appeared as part of the programme in the Singapore Writers Festival in 2021, the same year Waking the Dead was rereleased to critical acclaim.
She wrote the feature film, Ilawod, directed by Dan Villegas and starring Iza Calzado and Ian Veneracion, and co-wrote the libretto for Opera: A Rebirth in Arabesque, a ballet based on the work of artist Gabriel Barredo, with Erwin Romulo which was performed by Ballet Philippines in the CCP Main Theatre as part of Art Fair 2016. She was
