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Christa I De La Cruz

Christa I De La Cruz (she/her) is a graduate student in the MFA Creative Writing program of De La Salle University - Manila and currently the Associate Editor of Esquire Philippines. Her works have appeared in local and international anthologies, zines, and literary journals, such as Asymptote Journal, LILA Vol. 1 and 2 by Librong LIRA, and Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry. ‘Mula sa Silong,’ a poetry collection in Filipino, won first prize at the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2015.

Finding Home: On the Poetry of Place of Luisa A Igloria, Marjorie Evasco and Merlie M Alunan

For decades, Filipinos were taught that the country was ‘discovered’ by Ferdinand Magellan. The Portuguese explorer led the 1519-1522 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, credited as the first circumnavigation of Earth. Antonio Pigafetta’s chronicle of Magellan’s voyage became one of the earliest documents recording the culture of 16th-century Philippines.

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