Miriam Defensor Santiago QSC was a

Filipino academic, lawyer, judge, author,

and statesman, who served in all three
branches of the Philippine government:
judicial, executive, and legislative.
Defensor Santiago was named one of The
100 Most Powerful Women in the World in
1997 by The Australian magazine.
Born: 15 June 1945, Iloilo City
Died: 29 September 2016, St. Luke's
Medical Center
Education: University of Oxford (1997–
1997), Harvard Law School (1996–1996),
more
Awards: Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Government Service

Lakambini A. Sitoy is an author, journalist

and teacher. Her novel Sweet Haven was
published in French translation by Albin
Michel as "Les filles de Sweethaven" in
October 2011, in the original English by the
New York Review of Books in 2014, and by
Anvil Publishing Inc. in 2015. She received
the David T.K. Wikipedia
Born: 1969 (age 51 years), Philippines
Books: Sweet Haven, Mens Rea and Other
Stories, Jungle Planet and Other Stories
Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards
for Short Story for Children, more
Education: Silliman University, Roskilde
Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fiction writer,
teacher and literary critic was a Filipino
writer in the English language. Tiempo was
born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Her
poems are intricate verbal transfigurations
of significant experiences as revealed, in
two of her much anthologized pieces,
"Halaman" and "Bonsai."
Born: 22 April 1919, Bayombong
Died: 21 August 2011, Dumaguete
Education: University of the Philippines
Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards
for Poetry, more
Parents: Teresa Cutaran, Salvador T.
Lopez

Jessica Zafra is a fiction writer,

columnist, editor, publisher, and
former television and radio show
host. She is known for her sharp and
witty writing style.
Born: 1965 (age 55 years), Manila
Education: Philippine Science High
School System, Saint Theresa's
College of Quezon City, more
Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for Short Story, more
Movies: Esoterika: Maynila
Pura Santillan-Castrence was a Filipino writer and diplomat. Of
Filipino women writers, she was among the first to gain
prominence writing in the English language. She was named a
Chevalier de Légion d'honneur by the French government.
Wikipedia

Born: 24 March 1905, Manila

Died: 15 January 2007, Melbourne, Australia

Education: University of the Philippines

Books: Woman Sense: Selections from a Vintage Column, more

Shirley Siaton, officially credited in bylines as Shirley O. Siaton, is

a journalist and writer of fiction and poetry based in the
Philippines. She is best known for the Center series that ran in
MOD Filipina magazine, stories that chronicled the lives of
members of a fictional Filipino pop-rock band.

Maria Odulio de Guzman was a teacher, educator, principal,

writer, and author. She was the first Filipino female principal of a
secondary school in the Philippines. She worked as a teacher at
the Nueva Ecija High School in Nueva Ecija, Philippines from
1918 to 1928. Wikipedia

Books: New Tagalog-English, English-Tagalog dictionary, The

Filipino Heroes, with Pictures
Eileen Tabios is an award-winning
Filipino-American poet, fiction writer,
conceptual/visual artist, editor,
anthologist, critic, and publisher. Born
in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Tabios
moved to the United States at the age
of ten. Wikipedia
Born: 1960 (age 60 years), Ilocos Sur
Education: Barnard College, NYU
Stern School of Business

Gina Marissa Tagasa-Gil is a Filipino

television writer and film writer.
Wikipedia
Parents: Mely Tagasa
TV shows: Maria Mercedes,
Magpahanggang Wakas, Pieta, Two
Wives, Tubig at Langis

Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido was a

Filipino linguist and poet.
Wikipedia
Born: 1912, Shanghai, China
Died: 1994
Books: Private Edition: Sonnets
and Other Poems
Education: University of the
Philippines, University of the
Philippines Manila