I'm over the moon about The Quiet is Loud appearing in the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated" 2021 spring fiction list! There are so many great titles on this list and I'm excited for my book to be included as one of them (look for it in the paragraph showing the…
News! I'm honoured to have had two poems and a short story published in a really cool new Canadian literary magazine, The Quarantine Review. They believe that "great works of creativity can liberate us despite our being sequestered. Although the theme of self-isolation might permeate every issue, the stories and…
After reading a couple of speculative fiction novels that incorporate non-European mythology (Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson and Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James), and really wonderful conversations with my editor, I've renewed my commitment to incorporating Filipino folk tales and mythology in The Quiet is…
Discovering NK Jemisin changed my entire focus as a writer. The Broken Earth Trilogy (not pictured, I know) was like nothing else I'd read in my life. The world she created, and the way she wrote it, encouraged me to write what actually made me happy: stories featuring tweaked reality,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has really thrown us for a loop, eh? Everyone I know is struggling in some way, whether it's balancing childcare and work, keeping healthy, or finding ways to keep busy. I've definitely been struggling too, but I've also been noticing some interesting ways quarantine has changed my…
