ABOUT THE AUTHOR

EDNA ZAPANTA MANLAPAZ is a professor of the Department of English at Ateneo de Manila University. Among her published works focusing on Filipino women writers in English are: Angela Manalang Gloria: A Literary Biography 1994); with Marjorie Evasco, Six Women Poets: Interviews with Angela Manalang Gloria, Trinidad Tarrosa Subido, Virginia Moreno, Edith L. Tiempo, Tita Lacambra Ayala, Ophelia A. Dimalanta (1995); Our Literary Matriarchs, 1925-1953: Angela Manalang Gloria, Paz Latorena, Loreto Paras-Sulit and Paz Marquez Benitez (1996). She is currently the Executive Director of the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALIWW).