Myrna Peña Reyes

Myrna Peña-Reyes, born and raised in the Philippines of Ilocano stock but Visayan upbringing, was educated at Silliman University (BA English) and the University of Oregon (MFA in creative writing). While a resident of Eugene, Oregon where she lived with her husband for three decades, she was a winner of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for poetry (2002). Presently retired in her hometown of Dumaguete, she continues her volunteer affiliation with Silliman University’s literature and creative writing program that administers the Silliman University National Writers Workshop, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Her poetry collections are Memory’s Mercy: New and Selected Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2015), Almost Home: Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2004) and The River Singing Stone (Anvil, 1994). She co-edited a poetry anthology with Gémino H Abad, Artemio Tadena This Craft As With A Woman Loved: Selected Poems (U of Santo Tomas Publishing, 2016).