Poet • Essayist • Educator

Angela Gabrielle Fabunan has authored the poetry collections Young Enough to Play (University of the Philippines Press, 2022) and The Sea That Beckoned (Platypus Press, 2019); and a book of essays, Migratory Notes (Vibal Publishing, 2025).

She holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines Diliman and a Bachelor of Arts in English and American Literature from Bowdoin College, Maine.

Her poetry experiments within traditional lyric forms as a way to explore the inefficacies of language, pushing it towards its breaking point; while her research resides at the intersections of women’s writing, lyric experimentation, and confessional poetics. Her poetry has been recognized by the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (2016). Her research has received the Rutan Grant for Theater (2010) as well as the Gibbons Fellowship (2011). She has worked with the Association of Writers & Writing Programs as a poetry mentor, as well as the poetry magazine Palette Poetry as a regular guest editor.

Her poems have appeared in or is forthcoming from Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Lunch Ticket, Salt Hill Journal, New Asian Writing, and Atlanta Review, among others. At present she teaches creative writing and literature at the Department of English and Literature at Silliman University.