Firie Jill T. Ramos writes poems, fiction/susumaton, children’s stories, and a novel in Waray. She won the 2019 NCCA Writers Prize for the Novel in Waray.
Firie’s work has appeared in different publications and anthologies here and abroad such as in Memories of Water (Ateneo de Naga, 2016), Tinalunay: Hinugpong nga Panurat nga Winaray (UP Press, 2017), Sustaining the Archipelago, An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (UST Press, 2018), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Pinili (KATIG, 2018), Philippines Graphic, ANMLY, and Ulirat: The Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021).
She translates stories and other materials from Waray to English, such as the story Sandangaw published by Sari-sari Books in New York.
Firie Jill is the current Workshop Director for the Lamiraw Creative Writing Workshop, a workshop for writers in the Waray language, now in its 19th year. She is a founding member and officer of the KATIG WRITERS Network Inc., a federation of practicing writers in Eastern Visayas.
Firie writes about the lives of women in the islands of Eastern Visayas.