Alexis A.L. Abola has an MA in Creative Writing from UP Diliman and currently teaches at the English Department at the Ateneo de Manila. He has won several awards for his short fiction in English, among them Palanca Awards and the NVM Gonzalez Award. 

Efmer Agustin teaches at the Humanities Division at UP Visayas and is a reporter for the Freeman. He has attended the Iligan and Faigao workshops, and several others. He was the second place awardee for the Jimmy Y Balacuit Literary Award at the Iligan writing workshop.

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Roberto T. Añonuevo has entered the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards Hall of Fame for winning the Palanca Award for poetry in Filipino five times. He represented the Philippines in the Second ASEAN Poetry Conference Workshop in 1995 and was made President of the Linangan sa Imahen sa Retorika at Anyo (LIRA) in the same year. He is also founder of ORAGON and is a former Chairman of UMPIL, the largest formal group of Filipino writers.

Dean Francis Alfar is a playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction. His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both here and abroad. His literary awards include several Palanca Awards, the Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion, the Gintong Aklat Award, and the Philippines Free Press Literary Award. He has published two books and edits the annual Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology.

Genevieve L. Asenjo has a PhD in Literature from De La Salle University. She has won several awards for her poems and stories in Hiligaynon, among them Palanca and Gawad Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino awards. She is also the recipient of the NCCA Ubod New Writers Series grant, for her fiction in Kinaray-a.

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Janice Bagawi holds a B.A. in Language and Literature degree from the University of the Philippines Baguio. She is currently finishing her M.A. in Language and Literature, also at the University of the Philippines Baguio. She is the president and founding member of UBBOG: Young Cordillera Writers, and has been a fellow to the Baguio Writers Group Creative Writing Workshop-NCCA and the UPB-1^st Cordillera Creative Writing Workshop.

John E. Barrios has an MA in Education from the UP Visayas and teaches at the UP High School in Iloilo. He has written and edited a number of books and has been awarded grants from the CCP and the NCCA for his short fiction. 

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Ronald Baytan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature of De La Salle University, where he was a former Chair from 2004 to 2006.  He is an associate for nonfiction for the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center. He holds a Ph.D. in English Studies (Creative Writing) from the University of the Philippines, Diliman and is the author of The Queen Sings the Blues: Poems, 1992-2002, published by Anvil in 2007.

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Christine S Bellen writes stories, plays, musicals and screenplays for children. She teaches at the Filipino Department at the Ateneo De Manila and is the Director of the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practice (AILAP). She has an MA in Philippine Studies from UP Diliman. She has published a multitude of books and anthologies, and has paneled at several writing workshops. She has won several awards and grants.

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John Bengan finished his B.A. in Creative Writing at the U.P. Mindanao in 2005 and was a fellow of the 43^rd National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete in 2004 and the 10^th Iligan National Writers Workshop in 2003. In 2005, he won the 2^nd prize for the short story category in the annual Philippines Free Press Literary Awards.

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