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Rina Garcia Chua (unceded tm̓xwúlaʔxw (lands) of the syilx Okanagan peoples-The Philippines

Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is a creative and critical scholar from the Philippines who is currently based in unceded tm̓xwúlaʔxw (lands) of the syilx Okanagan peoples. Her poems have been previously published in numerous magazines and journals, some of which are World Literature Today, Asteri(x), g u e s t, The Hopper, The Global South, and more. Rina is also the editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (UST Publishing House, 2018), and co-editor of Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific (University of Michigan Press, 2022) and Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting (University of Hawai’i Press, 2024). She is completing her poetry collection, A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards (forthcoming with Sampaguita Press in 2025), which is a visual and poetic response to environmental and social injustice in migrant cultures and liminal spaces.