Mariejoy San Buenaventura is from the Philippines. She has a Master's in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College in the United States, where she took a screenwriting workshop, completed an oral history project, and composed a book-length poem for her thesis. This exposure to different genres of creative writing has made her realize that she loves writing poetry most of all because it lets her distil the essence of a moment in a vial of words. She currently teaches college English and runs a short story writing workshop at Mahidol University in Thailand; she is set to launch a poetry course there in March 2010. [Read]