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Kristine Ong Muslim (b. September 18, 1980) is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), and Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015). We Bury the Landscape, her collection of ekphrastic microfictions and prose poems, was republished by the University of the Philippines Press in 2020.

She won a 2023 PEN-Heim grant for her translation of Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III’s novel, Book of the Damned, and is the translator of at least nine books by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Marlon Hacla, and Rogelio Braga. Her recently published translations include Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles’s Hollow (Fernwood Press, 2022), Pesoa (Balangay Books, 2021), Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2021), and the Poetry Book Society-recommended Three Books (Broken Sleep Books, 2020); Marlon Hacla’s Glossolalia (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming 2023), There Are Angels Walking the Fields (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), and Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020); and Rogelio Braga’s story collection Is There Rush Hour in a Third World Country? (the 87 Press, 2022) and novel Colon (forthcoming from the 87 Press).

She edited with Nalo Hopkinson the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! (2016); Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines (Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press, 2021) with Paolo Enrico Melendez; Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021) and Signos: Anthology of 21st Century Filipino Fiction on Dark Lore and the Supernatural (forthcoming from Radix Media) with Tilde Acuña, John Bengan, Daryll Delgado, and Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III; Lagunlón: Anthology of 21st Century Filipino Crime and Mystery Fiction (forthcoming from Running Wild Press) with Tilde Acuña, Daryll Delgado, and Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III; and Iláwud: Best Contemporary Poems in Translation from the Philippines (forthcoming from Gaudy Boy) and Destination: SEA 2050 A.D. (Penguin Random House SEA, 2022) with Tilde Acuña and Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III. 

With Gutierrez Mangansakan II, she edits the Bangsamoro Literary Review. ​An editor for the poetry section of the now-defunct LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, she also guest-edited literary folios for Anomaly and Loch Raven Review, as well as a special issue with Kristian Sendon Cordero for Words Without Borders. 

Widely anthologized, Muslim’s short stories were published in Conjunctions, Dazed, and World Literature Today and translated into  Bulgarian, Czech, German, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and soon into Spanish. She lives in a small farmhouse in Sitio Magutay, a remote rural highland area in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao.

Recent Press, Appearances, and Interviews​