Allied Works

Poetry, Visual Arts

Alyza Taguilaso

Alyza Taguilaso is a General Surgeon and the author of Juggernaut (UST Publishing House, 2024) which won the 25th Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award. Her poems have also been shortlisted for a Pushcart and Rhysling Award, and other contests like the Manchester Poetry Prize and Bridport Poetry prize. Her poems have been published in several publications, including Electric Literature, Crazy Horse, The Deadlands, Canthius, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Orbis Journal, Voice and Verse, Luna Journal PH, Brave New Words, and the Philippines Free Press. You may find her online via WordPress (@alyzataguilastorm), Instagram (@ventral and @doc.alyza), and X/Twitter (@lalalalalalyza).

Awards

● Winner, Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award (2025)
● UST National Writing Fellowship (June 15-21, 2025)
● Nominated, Pushcart Prize (2024)
● Shortlisted, Rhysling Award (2022)
● Shortlisted, Manchester Poetry Prize (2021)
● Shortlisted, Bridport Prize (Poetry) (2021)

Fellowships

6th La Salle National Creative Nonfiction Workshop for Healthcare Professionals & Medical Interns (November 4-22, 2025)
50th Silliman University National Writers Workshop (May 2-20, 2011)
10th Ateneo National Writers Workshop (October 24-28, 2010)
10th IYAS Creative Writing Workshop (April 25 – May 1, 2010)
15th Ateneo-Heights Writers Workshop (July 31 – August 2, 2009)

Literary Works

BOOK
Juggernaut (UST Publishing House, 2024)

*Individual works-

POETRY
● Incompatible With Life, SVRGERY, Three Movements on Anatomy, Anemia of Unknown
Etiology, Atomoxetine, and Mental Health, Incisions, Vol. 45 No. 2, P56-63, June – August
2025, Philippine College of Surgeons
● Insight Level 5, Mande Literary, February 27, 2025
● Delphi, The Mekong Review, August-October 2024
● Fragments of Futures Forgotten, Brave New Words, Vol. 1, p.58-61, August 2024, Paper Trail Projects
● Extinction, Vastarien Vol. 7, p. 83-84, January 2024, Grimscribe Press
● Home: An Inventory and Kicks, Heights Vol. 71 No. 1 Identity, p. 74-76, 2023
● Evidence, Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, Issue 5: Writes and Rights, October 11, 2023
● Meditations in A Fractured Archipelago, IHRAF Publishes, May 18, 2023, International
Human Rights Art Festival
● SVRGERY, Santelmo: Liwanag Sa Dilim, Issue 04, March 2023, p. 142-149, San Anselmo Publications, Inc.
● Fruit, Nightmare Magazine, Issue 124, January 2023
● Sayabovry, 第68期 Voice & Verse Issue 68: Departures, December 2022, p.66
● Kicks and Demonic Possession Secondary to Femoral Fracture, Electric Literature issue 252, December 26, 2022
● Suwerte, Crazyhorse 102, Fall 2022
● Verse Jumping, Five South Journal, October 24, 2022
● Ophicius, Coffin Bell Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 4: The Zodiac, October 01, 2022
● What Remains, Great-Grandfather, Evidence, and Bonus Level, Luna Journal PH, Issue 01, September 2022, p.60-66 Good Intentions Publishing
● Instructions, Orbis Journal, Issue 201, Autumn, 2022, p.39
● Time Skip, The Deadlands, Issue 16, August 22, 2022
● Divinity, Canthius, Issue 10, July 26, 2022
● In the dark of my heart, Bangungot, Inedia, and Hallowed Be Thy Name, Santelmo:
Liwanag Sa Dilim, Issue 01, June 30, 2022, p.17-23 San Anselmo Publications, Inc.
● Methuselah Performs A Magic Trick, Fantasy Magazine, Issue 79, May 17 2022
● Add To Cart, Strange Horizons, 21 February 2022
● Doomsday Dictionary & From the Early Days of the Plague, 21st Century, Anomaly #30
Writings by Filipino Women (Kognisyon, part 1 of 3), August 2020
● The Makings of Dynamite, Kritika Kultura 24, March 2015, p. 302-308
Purity Report, p.303; Pathos, p.304; Contentment, p.305; Barter, p.306; Origins, p.307
● Stop. (June 2014) High Chair Issue 19
● Trepanation. (January 2014) Stone Telling
● The Study of Medicine. (April 2013) IYAS Anthology 2001 – 2010, p149
● Aphasia. (February 25, 2013) Stone Telling
● Experiment. (January 2013) Paper Monster Press, FIRESTARTER Issue
● Examination. (2012) Heights Vol. 60 No. 2, LX: Heights’ 60th Anniversary Folio
● Variations on Armageddon. (December 21, 2012) Thursday Never Looking Back
● Again. (December 21, 2012) Thursday Never Looking Back
● The Sky Is Falling. (December 21, 2012) Thursday Never Looking Back
● Song. (April 2012) Paper Monster Press, SANDIGMAAN Issue
● When what we have is the absence. (March 11, 2012) The Cabinet
● Please. (March 11, 2012) The Cabinet
● Dream of A Single Day. (February 2012) Blinds: PANTAS Tomo IX
● Three Movements on Anatomy. (December 21, 2011) Stone Telling
● Author, Fragments: In Which We Are- (December 17, 2011), illustrated by Tilde Acuña. Quarterly Bathroom Companion Comics Compendium (QBCCC) Volume 2
● Leviathan. (September 2, 2011) Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry
● Three Bodies. (July 9, 2011) Philippines Free Press
● The Story of Love. (March 2011) The Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English. Ateneo de Manila University

SHORT STORY
● Nine Lives Later, Zooscape Zine, August 10, 2025
● Birthday, Sun Rising Short Stories, Flame Tree Press, p. 35-48, October 2024

ESSAY
● Beyond Scalpels and Stethoscopes, JournalIXM, May 31, 2024

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