Pauline Lacanilao Arnould is the author of Captor, a collection of poems published by Gacha Press in 2026. She received a master’s degree in creative writing from UP Diliman. And she was a fellow for nonfiction at the UP National Writers Workshop in 2024. Her prose and poems have been published in Kritika Kultura, Alchemy, This Is Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. She has taught writing and literature at Ateneo de Manila University, UP Diliman, and UP Tacloban.