Marielle Fatima Tuazon is a Filipina writer in English, Filipino, and Spanish currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at De La Salle University Manila. She graduated Magna cum laude in her BA Philippine Studies degree (major in Creative Writing and History) from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, where also holds a Sertipiko sa Malikhaing Pagsulat sa Filipino. She has bylines in various publications like PhilStar L!fe, Esquire Philippines, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, among others.
She was a Creative Nonfiction fellow in the 61st Silliman University National Writers’ Workshop. In 2017, she was awarded Third Prize in the 67th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Kabataan Essay English category, for “The Pursuit of Lucidity.” She publishes some of her work online on Substack as mariellewritesalot and through zines with the Bad Seed Collective. She usually writes nonfiction on the rawness of human experience, but occasionally publishes in other genres.