Christine Lao teaches creative writing and literature at UP Diliman where graduated with a bachelor of law’s degree in 2000 and an MA in Creative Writing (fiction) in 2015. Her chapbook, Musical Chairs, was a finalist of the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award in 2019. Her stories (speculative fiction) have appeared in anthologies published in the US, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Tin practiced law for 17 years. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing also at UP, this time majoring in poetry. Some of the poems in her manuscript were published in Likhaan 13 (2019). Her poems have also appeared in two separate issues of Kritika Kultura.