Luisa A. Igloria (Filipino American) grew up in Baguio City though she was born in Makati, when it was still a part of Rizal province. She is one of 2 Co-Winners of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Open competition for her manuscript Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Southern Illinois University Press, September 2020). In 2015, she was the inaugural winner of the Resurgence Prize (UK), the world’s first major award for ecopoetry. Other works include The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis, Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (2014 May Swenson Prize), and 12 other books. She is a Louis I. Jaffe and University Professor of English and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, which she directed from 2009-2015. When she isn’t teaching, reading, or writing, she likes to knit, cook, listen to tango music, and hand-bind books; she keeps her radar tuned for cool lizard sightings. www.luisaigloria.com
