Monica
Antonio
Writer/Editor
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My Story
WORDS. IDEAS. RESULTS.
You may see me lurking in a coffee shop, alternately sipping black coffee and typing furiously on my laptop while my eyes are glued to the screen. This is my normal day.
As an editor and writer, I easily get lost in my own little world filled with nouns, pronouns, and punctuation. I have a love-hate relationship with dangling modifiers and loves the ingenuity of an Oxford comma.
My endless pursuit of a work-life balance has made me decide to leave the office and do freelancing. Armed with my trusty laptop and a good Internet connection, I work while discovering new places and meeting people around the globe.
So if you see me hanging around your favorite cafe or wandering in your city, don't hesitate to approach me. Let's talk about writing, life, books, or anything under the sun.
Work
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Campaigns
Kim Chiu for Nature's Way Aloe Vera System
Coco Martin for Alert
Purpleheiress/Nanay Isha for Glutalight
Product AVPs
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Edited books
Tinalunay. Merlie M. Alunan
Winner, Best Anthology in English,
37th Philippine National Book Awards
Multi-awarded poet and scholar, Merlie Alunan, brings us groundbreaking work, weaving into one book a crucial history and scholarship, literary translation, and critical anthology of literature from the Eastern Visayas region.
Pag Umalis Baka Di Naman Talaga Dumating, Rolando Tolentino
Winner, Best Anthology in English,
37th Philippine National Book Awards
Ang Pag Mabilis na Umalis Baka Di Naman Talaga Dumating, at Iba Pang Kwento ay isang musa ng pagdanas at mundo ng mga iglap na hitik at said sa pag-ibig, pagkatao, at pakikipagkapwa-tao. Lipad-sadsad para sa posibilidad at pagkakataong makaalagwa at pag-asang magtagumpay.
Southern Stories and Strays.
Maria Elena Paulma
Finalist, Best Book of Fiction in English,
37th Philippine National Book Awards
This collection of stories are about those middle spaces where there will always be more than one thing, all at once: logic and love, truth and imagination, tradition and transitions, presence and loss, madness and choices, grief and life.
Fault Setting, Joel Toledo
Finalist, Best Book of Short Fiction in Filipino, 37th Philippine National Book Awards
Each poem in this collection is indeed a form of homecoming and an essay in resistance, a map of the heart that will guide readers into new worlds and ways of being.
Metroimperial Intimacies.Victor Mendoza
Finalist, Best Book in History, 36th Philippine National Book Awards
Metroimperial Intimacies combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects.
Suri, Bienvenido Lumbera
National Artist of the Philipines
Layunin ng librong ito na maglinaw sa mga usaping kaugnay ng pagbabasa ng panitikan.