Michael Balili is the co-founder & co-editor of Gacha Press (www.gacha.press) & horde: a journal of poetry & ideas (hordepoetry,substack.com). His first book of poems, Kaiju, was published by Ateneo de Manila University Press in 2023. He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines – Diliman.
NBDB 2023 Publication Grant
Ateneo (2004), UP (2005), UP Mid-Career (2024)
Velocirupture (Gacha Press, 2018), Kaiju (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023)
Likhaan: the UP Institute of Creative Writing
Room 3200, Pavilion 3, Palma Hall
Roxas Street, UP Diliman, Quezon City 1101
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.
© 2025 UP Institute of Creative Writing
All Rights Reserved
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.
Likhaan: the UP Institute of Creative Writing
Room 3200, Pavilion 3, Palma Hall
Roxas Street, UP Diliman, Quezon City 1101
