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Yvette Tan is one of the Philippines’ most celebrated horror writers. Aside from short fiction collections in English and Tagalog, she’s written a feature film that received nationwide release and co-written a libretto for a ballet that was performed by Ballet Philippines on the main stage of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She was the official scribe of the Manila Biennale in 2018 and her story was the companion piece to the artwork that adorned the Philippine pavilion in the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair. She co-hosted Trese After Dark, the behind-the-scenes companion to the Netflix hit anime Trese. She was a creative consultant for a Filipino game inspired by the country’s mythical creatures and the collection Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories was nominated for the 41st National Book Awards. Her works have been translated into Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, and French. Read more about her at yvettetan.com.

Charlson Ong has published four collections of short fiction Men of the East and other stories, Woman of Amkaw and other stories, Conversion and other fictions, and Of that Other Country we now speak as well as five novels An Embarrassment of Riches, Banyaga: A Song of War, Blue Angel/White Shadow and White Lady Black Christ, The Arhat Son. His short fiction has been compiled in Sojourner, Settler, Seer (MILFLORES, 2024).

He has won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in English, the PH National Book Award for both short fiction and the novel. He has also won a Filipino Academy of Motion Picture Arts (FAMAS) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for TANABATA’S WIFE that he wrote co-produced and co-directed.

He is a board member of Philippine Chapter of the International PEN.