Isabela Banzon grew up on campus at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines. She has since moved to the main campus in Diliman, Quezon City where, as associate professor, she teaches creative writing and literature. Her interest in the Asia-Pacific region as a source of poetic insipration is a happy result of participating in the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival in Bali, Indonesia in 2005. She read her poems at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain in 2007. A second poetry collection, Lola Coqueta, is forthcoming. [Read]