Noelle Leslie dela Cruz

Noelle Leslie dela Cruz is associate professor of philosophy at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, where she received her Ph.D. in philosophy and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Her poems have won first prize at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature and the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards. She was a fellow for poetry at the 47th Silliman National Writers Workshop. Her chapbook, Sisyphus on the Penrose Stairs: Meta-Reveries, was published by Vagabond Press in 2017. Her pieces have also been published in Kritika Kultura, the Philippines Free Press and the anthology Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry, edited by Joel M. Toledo and Khavn de la Cruz.