Monica Macansantos was a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her MFA in Writing, and also holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the Victoria University of Wellington, International Institute of Modern Letters. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Anomaly, failbetter, Lunch Ticket, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and Oyster River Pages, among other places. Her work has also been recognised with residencies from the KHN Centre for the Arts, Hedgebrook, the Storyknife Writers Retreat, the I-Park Foundation, and Moriumius. She has recently completed a novel and a story collection, and is currently at work on a new story collection about Filipinos in New Zealand, Texas, and the motherland.