Marga Ortigas is a veteran international journalist and bestselling author from Manila. After decades of reporting from the frontlines of conflict and climate change for CNN and Al Jazeera, she stepped away from the camera and focused on the page, with her first four books published by Penguin Random House Southeast Asia. Her novel The House on Calle Sombra, an epic family saga, was highly-acclaimed as a lyrical if troubled love letter to her native Philippines, while her second book,There Are No Falling Stars in China (& Other LIfe Lessons from a Recovering Journalist), is an inspirational collection of essays from her decades on the field as a reporter. Her two most recent works, God’s Ashes and WTF?!: Woman Turning F*fty, have been featured in book fairs across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and India.
Marga was a British Council Chevening Scholar and was awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross for Humanitarian Reporting on the Philippines. A storyteller at heart, she continues to write—both nonfiction and fiction—with the urgency of a journalist and the intimacy of a poet.
