Kate Osias has won four Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Gig Book Contest, Canvas Story Writing Contest, and the 10th Romeo Forbes Children’s Storywriting Competition. She earned a citation in the international Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for her story, “The Riverstone Heart of Maria dela Rosa”. Her writing has appeared in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, as well as various volumes of Philippine Speculative Fiction, Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, Maximum Volume, and the WFC Unconventional Fantasy (2014). She co-edited the sixth and seventh volumes of Philippine Speculative Fiction. Kate is a proud founding member of the LitCritters, a writing and literary discussion group. Occasionally, she ventures out into the real world to hoard chocolate and shop for shoes. Her debut collection of short fiction, Heroes, Villains, and Other Women, was published by Ateneo de Manila University Press in 2018.
a.k.a. Kate Aton Osias