Rayji de Guia is a fictionist, poet, and illustrator. Her work can be found in Asian Cha, The Deadlands, harana poetry, Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, The Pinch, Makiling Review, Likhaan 17, and elsewhere. She has received prizes from the Gémino H. Abad Awards for Poetry and for Literary Criticism and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. In 2021, she was a fellow for fiction in the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is from Maragondon, Cavite.