Novellas
Mirror Marked. August 2025. PS Publishing.
Collections
Song of the Mango and Other New Myths. 2022. Ateneo University Press.
Beyond the Line of Trees. 2019. Self-published.
Short Fiction
2022
Song of the Mango and Other New Myths, Ateneo University Press.
“Have Your #Hugot Harvested at This Diwata-Owned Cafe,” Kathang Haka: The Big Book of Fake News. UST Publishing House.
“Child of Two Worlds,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. November-December 2022 issue.
2021
“Voices in the Air,” Common Bonds. Claudie Arseneault.
2020
“Odd and Ugly,” PodCastle, March 2020 issue.
“Have Your #Hugot Harvested At This Diwata-Owned Cafe,” Strange Horizons, May 2020 issue.
2019
Beyond the Line of Trees. Self-published illustrated fantasy short story collection.
“In the Shadow of the Typhoon, Humans and Mahiwaga Cooperate for Survival,” An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted. Calque Press.
2018
“Odd and Ugly,” Writers of the Future, vol. 34. Galaxy Press.
“Song of the Mango.” LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, vol. 10. Epigram Books.
“First Play For and By Tikbalang Triggers Uproar on Opening Night,” Expanded Horizons, issue 58.
“Blushing Blue,” Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good. Upper Rubber Boot Books.
2017
“Call of the Rimefolk.” Philippine Speculative Fiction, vol. 11. Kestrel DDM Publishing. Reprinted in New Philippine Speculative Fiction, vol. 1. Vibal Publishing. 2025.
2016
“Ink: A Love Story,” LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, vol. 7. Epigram Books.
2015
“To Megan, with Half My Heart,” Expanded Horizons, issue 45.
2014
“How the Jungle Got Its Spirit Guardian,” Phantazein. FableCroft Publishing.
“First Play For and By Tikbalang Triggers Uproar on Opening Night,” Philippine Speculative Fiction, vol. 9. Kestrel DDM Publishing.
2013
“To Megan, with Half My Heart,” The Silliman Journal, vol. 52. Silliman University.
2011
“An Author Takes a Wife,” 100: The Hundreds Project. UP Press.
2010
- “6:30 on a Wednesday morning, Commonwealth Avenue,” Heights, vol. LVIII, issue 1, 2010
- “Hydrophobia,” Heights, vol. LVII, issue 2, 2010
Non-Fiction
2026
2025
- “Where Do Stories Begin?” Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction, UP Press.
2024
- “Rendering Justice.” Calque Press. Limited edition pamphlet released during the 2024 Glasgow WorldCon.
2023
- “A Note on Triggers.” Written exclusively for my Fiction Workshop III class.
- “A Poetics of ADHD.” 62nd UP National Writers Workshop.
- “On the Inactive Protagonist.” Letters to a Writer of Color, Penguin Random House.
2021
- “Cinderella Isn’t About Self-Actualization.” Written exclusively for my class on the inactive protagonist with the Carl Brandon Society.
- “The Breath of Life in Fiction.” Written exclusively for my class on the inactive protagonist with the Carl Brandon Society.
- “We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist,” Fantasy Magazine, August 2021 issue.
- “Activist SFF Isn’t Just About Good Intentions,” SFWA Bulletin, Winter/Spring 2021 issue.
2019
“Vida Cruz Fellowship Report,” Otherwise Fellowship.
2018
“An Introduction to Philippine Science Fiction,” Post-colonial Studies Association Newsletter, June 2018.
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