Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta is an award-winning writer from the Philippines. She has published five collections of poetry, two of which one first place at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, the foremost literary prize in the Philippines. Her latest poetry collection College Boy won the National Book award in 2023.
During the pandemic, Katigbak-Lacuesta wrote Assembling Alice, a biofiction on the life of Alice Feria, her maternal grandmother, and one of the first Filipina journalists in the Philippines. It was hailed as an audacious invention that was also “a sharply-observed and lyrically-rendered depiction of an era.”
Katigbak-Lacuesta has been the Filipino delegate to international literary festivals in Dubai, Rotterdam, Medellín, San Francisco, Macau, Kuala Lumpur and South Korea. In 2015, she completed a writing residency for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
