We speak with Sigrid Gayangos, a writer born and raised in Zamboanga. In 2020, Sigrid’s short story, “Galansiyang”, was one of 10 finalists in the Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, which received a total of 580 submissions from 77 countries. The story, whose title is a local name for the Asian glossy starling, is published and can be read in Everything Change Volume III (published by Arizona State University).
She is one of the editors of Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, an open-access literary journal for writing and ideas in, through, and of the Southern Philippines. Sigrid’s works have been anthologized in Mindanao Odysseys: A Collection of Travel Essays, Fantasy: Fiction for Young Adults, Maximum Volume: Best New Philippine Fiction 3, Philippine Speculative Fiction 12, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Best Small Fictions 2019, among others. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.
Listen to this conversation with Sigrid about writing intersectionality and climate into fiction. When not busy with her writing, she divides her time between training mathletes and making friends with curious sea critters.
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Produced by the Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities and Ground Bravo Studios.
