Nathaniel T. Dela Cruz is a creative writer from Malabon and Mindoro whose works move across speculative fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction. His writing often explores death, memory, myth, faith, identity, and the unseen textures of everyday Filipino life. He is the author of the novella Anino Ng Laging Saklolo and the zine Quietus, a collection of flash fiction and poetry in Filipino and English that reflects on the many ways death lingers in human experience.
Dela Cruz is a fellow of the 8th Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Writers Workshop and the 3rd Cavite Young Writers Association (CYWA) Writers Workshop. His literary works have appeared in publications in the Philippines and abroad. He is currently working on his first full-length speculative novel, Falsemyth: Sa Tinubuang Lupa, as well as the illustrated poetry anthology titled Tayo Ay Tao Lamang.