Guest editor, Philippine Genre Stories, February to July 2026 (6 issues)
Editor, Exercises in Estrangement: Stories. Salaginto Publishing (2023).
Guest editor, Philippine Genre Stories, July – December 2023 (6 issues).
Associate editor, Special Issue, DANAS/RANAS, Diliman Review Vol. 64 (Published, October 10, 2022).
Editor, Women in Science series by Didith Rodrigo, Bookmark, 2018 (10 books).
Christine V. Lao is the author of Affidavit of Loss (UP Press, 2025) and Musical Chairs: Stories (2017)–a finalist of the 19th Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Previously, she practiced law and served as a judicial staff head at the Supreme Court of theh Philippines in Manila.
One UP Faculty Grant Award for Outstanding Creative Work and Public Service, 2025-2027, University of the Philippines System.
PhD Incentive Award, 2026, UP Diliman
UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair, 2025, UP Diliman
Gawad Antonio Abad for Best Dissertation (for Affidavit of Loss: Poems), 2024, College of Arts and Letters University of the Philippines Diliman.
Artist 1, Artist Productivity Award Recipient 2022-2024, University of the Philippines System.
One UP Faculty Grant Award Award for Outstanding Creative Work and Teaching, 2022-2024, University of the Philippines System.
Best Art Work, Unveiling the Virtue of Great Urban Spaces in Asia (one of six), October 9, 2021, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (Surabaya, Indonesia) and Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan)
Fellow (Poetry), University of the Philippines National Writers’ Workshop, October 19-23, 2020.
Finalist, 19th Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award (for Musical Chairs: Stories) 2019 Likhaan ICW, UP Diliman.
Fellow (Fiction), May 2011, 50th Silliman University National Writers’ Workshop.
Justice Irene Cortez Prize for Constitutional Law, University of the Philippines College of Law, 2000.
Dean’s Award for Literature (Poetry and the Essay), 1995, Ateneo de Manila University.
Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines, 1995.
59th UPNWW (2020); 50th Silliman National Writers’ Workshop (2011)
Affidavit of Loss (UP Press, 2025); Musical Chairs: Stories (2017).
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It is UP Likhaan’s mission to stimulate writers from all parts of the Philippines to create and contribute to national cultural development; and to assert the leadership of the UP in creative writing and in the formation of policies and programs related to the development of Philippine culture and literature.
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