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	Editor Remé-Antonia Grefalda Reme-Antonia Grefalda, since 2008, has come out of retirement and plunged back into the world of books. She is the Director of Programs for the Asian Division Friends Society and enjoys curating a collection at the Library of Congress. Associate Editor Aileen Ibardaloza-Cassinetto Aileen's works have appeared in various online and print media including Manorborn journal (Summer 2009), 1,000 Views of Girl Singing (Leafe Press, California, 2009), A Taste of Home (Anvil, Manila, 2008), Fellowship (Summer/Fall 2008), Moria and Galatea Resurrects. Being newly married, Aileen is based in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and their two cats. "traje de boda", her first poetry collection, will be published by Meritage Press in 2010. Art Director and Web Designer Geejay Arriola Geejay Arriola has been in arts and culture work since 1988. She is a peace worker, popular educator, theatre artist, songwriter-musician, cultural researcher, writer, publicist and web designer. As theater and music artist, Geejay has traveled widely across the Philippines, Asia and Europe performing, conducting workshops, and delivering talks on Mindanao and Philippines arts and culture. As a web denizen, Geejay was finalist in the 2000 Philippine Webawards, judge in 2001, and semi-finalist in 2003. Geejay currently owns and maintains the Mindanao arts community website “Mindanao Literature, Arts and Culture.” Of course she has her own personal website: “Inspiration for Free." Managing Editor Victoria (Rexi) Cruz Would you believe Tita Rexi had to postpone her "compulsory retirement" from her full-time job for almost a year? Talk about being a great procrastinator. Come end of March 2008, however, she promises to let go . . . to gain time for writing stories for and about children, an occasional poem, and to share her gifts with some NGOs. All this, to pursue her "mutya" and true love. Contributing Editor for the Arts Eileen R. Tabios Eileen has released 18 print, four electronic and 1 CD poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, a short story book and two novels. Recipient of the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry for her first poetry book Beyond Life Sentences, she has exhibited visual poetry and visual art throughout the United States and Asia. She’s also edited or co-edited six books of poetry, fiction and essays. Honors for her authored and edited works include the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award, The Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award in the Advancement of Human Rights, Foreword Magazine Anthology of the Year Award, Poet Magazine's Iva Mary Williams Poetry Award, Judds Hill's Annual Poetry Prize and the Philippine American Writers & Artists' Catalagan Award; recognition from the Academy of American Poets, the Asian Pacific Association of Librarians and the PEN-Open Book Committee; as well as grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, the New York State Council on the Humanities, the California Council for the Humanities, and the New York City Downtown Cultural Council. In poetry, Ms. Tabios has crafted a body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. Inventor of the poetic form “hay(na)ku“,her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Paintings, Video, Drawings, Visual Poetry, Mixed Media Collages, Kali Martial Arts, Music, Modern Dance and Sculpture. As part of her poetry-as-performance approach, she blogs as the “Chatelaine” at http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com and edits GALATEA RESURRECTS, a popular poetry review journal at http://galatearesurrects.blogspot.com. Forthcoming is her THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems & New (1998-2010), to be released in Spring 2010 by Marsh Hawk Press in New York. Eusebio L. Koh Ka Seb as we fondly call him has returned after an absence in life adjustments. In recent years he has evolved from a professorial life in Mathematics to that of a retired scholar and persistent fiction writer. He still maintains a column with a local newspaper in Regina, Canada. Seb has found great satisfaction in writing and being involved as a volunteer in his parish church activities. With his wife Dony, they have been doing some relaxing traveling visiting their grandchildren and their daughters. top	powered by FreeFind EDITOR Remé-Antonia Grefalda ASSOCIATE EDITOR Aileen Ibardaloza-Cassinetto EDITORIAL BOARD Victoria Paz Cruz Seb Koh Yolanda Palis ART DIRECTOR AND WEB DESIGNER Geejay Arriola CONTRIBUTING EDITOR FOR THE ARTS Eileen Tabios copyright 2009