Ma. Luisa Aguilar Igloria

Luisa Aguilar Igloria
Luisa A. Igloria
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Filipina American

'Luisa A. Igloria' (born 1961) is a Filipina American poet and author of various award-winning collections.

Luisa A. Igloria received her undergraduate degree from the University of the Philippines, Baguio in 1980 (B.A. Humanities - Cum Laude - major in Comparative Literature, minor in English, cognate in Philosophy), and the M.A. in Literature at Ateneo de Manila University at Manila, Philippines in 1988 as a Robert Southwell Fellow. She received a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago in July 1995, where she was a Fulbright Fellow.

While in Chicago, Igloria was an active member of PINTIG, a Filipino-American cultural and theatre group; she was a member of PINTIG's cultural and education committee. She was a Visiting Humanities Scholar in 1996 at the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She also taught briefly at De La Salle University where she became the Graduate Programs Coordinator and Senior Associate for Poetry at the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center at De La Salle University.

She has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including the very first electronic anthology of Women's Poetry Fire On Her Tongue (Two Sylvias Press, 2011), Language for a New Century, ed. Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar, and Nathalie Handal (W.W. Norton, 2008), Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv, ed. by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler (Red Hen Press, 2007), Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, The North American Review, Natural Bridge, Poetry East, Smartish Pace, The Asian Pacific American Journal, and TriQuarterly. She edited the anthology NOT HOME, BUT HERE: WRITING FROM THE FILIPINO DIASPORA (Anvil, 2003).

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