Born in Ilagan, Isabela (1994) and currently based in Metro Manila, Philippines, Kaisa Aquino lives and works as a writer and educator. Her debut book, Isabela: A Novel (2024), was published by the Ateneo Press under the Bughaw Imprint, and has been translated into Albanian and is forthcoming in French. Her other writing has appeared in Perspective in the Arts and Humanities Asia, Akda, Katipunan, Likhaan, The Best Asian Short Stories 2019, and in PA-LIWANAG (Translating Feminisms). Aquino graduated in 2022 with a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. She is now a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila University, and is one of the program coordinators of the Creative Writing Program under the Department of Fine Arts.