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Kristine Ong Muslim (b. September 18, 1980) is an author, translator, and anthologist who grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines. Her books include 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). Widely anthologized, Muslim’s short stories were published in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital, and World Literature Today and translated into Bulgarian, French,  German, Japanese, Polish, and Serbian. 

She co-edited the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! (2016) and Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021), as well as the forthcoming anthologies Destination: SEA 2050 A.D. (Penguin Random House SEA), Signos: Anthology of 21st Century Filipino Fiction on Dark Lore and the Supernatural (Radix Media), Lagunlón: Anthology of 21st Century Filipino Crime and Mystery Fiction (Running Wild Press), and Iláwud: Best Contemporary Poems in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy).

Muslim is also the translator of many bilingual editions, including Marlon Hacla’s Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020) and There Are Angels Walking the Fields (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), as well as Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles’s Hollow (Fernwood Press, 2022), Pesoa (Balangay Productions, 2021), Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2021) and Three Books (Broken Sleep Books, 2020). 

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 guest-edited literary folios for Anomaly and Loch Raven Review, as well as a special issue with Kristian Sendon Cordero for Words Without Borders. 

Recent Press, Appearances, and Interviews​