Michael M. Coroza received the S.E.A. Write Award in 2007. He is a poet, essayist, children’s story writer, translator, and editor. He declaims his poems and sings the kundiman, the classic Filipino love song.

He is a Professor of Filipino Literature, Creative Writing, and Literary Translation at the School of Humanities of the Ateneo de Manila University, Republic of the Philippines. He is concurrently the Chair of the Writers’ Union of the Philippines and of the National Committee on Language and Translation (NCLT) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).