Allied Works

editor, translator, textbook author, creative writer

Christine Marie Magpile

Christine Marie Lim Magpile is a teacher, book editor-author, translator, and creative writer. She has a BS Education – History (cum laude) from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. She has completed her academic requirements for MA in Counseling at De La Salle University. She is pursuing her MA in Araling Pilipino from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

She is a fellow of several national writers’ workshops in the Philippines such as the Makiling National Writers Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism (2025), Iligan National Writers Workshop (2024), DLSU Young Screenwriters Workshop (2023), La Salle Kritika National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism (2019), 6th Angono Writers’ Summer Workshop (2018), the UST National Writers’ Workshop (2008), and the Linangan, Imahe, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA, 2007 and 2023).

Awards

Magpile won third place at the 2022 Sanaysay ng Taon from the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF). She was a finalist for the Salita ng Taon in 2010 (load), 2014 (kalakal), and 2016 (foundling). She was a finalist for the 2013 Readers Choice Awards for her children’s fiction, Kayumanggi.

Fellowships

LIRA Workshop (2007 at 2023), UST National Writers Workshop (2008), Angono Summer Writers Workshop (2018), La Salle Kritika for Arts and Cultural Criticism (2019), DLSU Young Screenwriters Workshop (2023), Iligan National Writers Workshop (2024), at Makiling National Writers Workshop (2025).

Literary Works

Three Jars from Tita Joy (iLab, 2025)
Si Fatima at ang Kwintangan Kayu (Aklat Mirasol, 2024)
My Teacher Is a Witch (TBC Publications, 2023)
Kayumanggi (Lampara, 2013)

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