Rey E. de la Cruz, Ed.D., writes from Chicagoland when he is not loving the arts and traveling. He is the author of the children’s book, Ballesteros on My Mind: My Hometown in the Philippines, which also has Ilocano, Spanish, and Tagalog versions.

Myles Garcia is a retired San Francisco Bay Area-based author/writer. His proudest work to date is the book Secrets of the Olympic Ceremonies. Myles is also a member of the ISOH (International Society of Olympic Historians) and has also written for the ISOH Journal. Finally, Myles has just completed his first play, Murder a lá Mode, which is now available to Broadway producers.

Anthony Maddela is a regular contributor to Positively Filipino when he’s not working on fiction or writing grants for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. He has a family of four.  

Elizabeth Ann Quirino, based in New Jersey, is a journalist, food writer and member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She blogs about Filipino home cooking and culinary travels to the Philippines on her site AsianInAmericamag.com.

Criselda Yabes is the author of Below the Crying Mountain set in the rebellion of the 1970s in the south. It won the UP Centennial Literary Prize in 2008 and was nominated for the Man Asian Prize in 2010. She is currently based in Manila.

Cherie M. Querol Moreno is a Commissioner with the San Mateo County Commission on Aging and executive director of nonprofit ALLICE Alliance for Community Empowerment. She is editor at large of Philippine News, columnist for Philippines Today USA and contributor to Rappler and GMA News Online.

Penelope V. Flores is Professor of Education Emeritus at San Francisco State University.

Rene Astudillo is a writer, book author and blogger and has recently retired from more than two decades of nonprofit community work in the Bay Area. He spends his time between California and the Philippines.

 
Serina Aidasani divides her time between New York and Chicago. She works in marketing communications and public relations.

 

Lisa Suguitan Melnick is a third generation Filipina-American whose personal path in the healing arts has led her into the company of indigenous Philippine mumbaki such as Lagitan and energy practitioners. Lisa is on faculty at College of San Mateo in both the Language Arts and Kinesiology divisions. She is the author of #30 Collantes Street (Carayan Press, 2015). 

John L. Silva is executive director of the Ortigas Library, a research library in Manila.