Sarah Panlibuton Barnes is a writer, book club curator, and senior editor at Repeller. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Nonfiction prize, selected by Ocean Vuong, and you can read her work at Repeller, Catapult, VIDA, and Architectural Digest, among other publications. She is working on a chimerical hybrid book about the year she became a beauty queen in her mother's ancestral province on the island of Panay, the queer genealogy of her maternal lineage, and a parsing of the mythic origins of her family. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @femmedrag.