Kristine Ong Muslim
  • About
  • Books
    • The Drone Outside
    • Black Arcadia
    • Meditations of a Beast
    • Butterfly Dream
    • Age of Blight
    • Lifeboat
    • We Bury the Landscape
    • Grim Series
    • A Roomful of Machines
  • Anthologies
  • Magazines & Journals
  • Translation Work
  • Distinctions
  • Blog
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​Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books, including the short story collections Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), and The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), as well as the poetry collections Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), and Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017). Her other books are We Bury the Landscape (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2012), a new edition of which is set to come out from the University of the Philippines Press, Grim Series (Popcorn Press, 2012), and A Roomful of Machines (ELJ Publications, 2015).

Born on September 18, 1980 in Kidapawan, a city in the Philippine province of Cotabato, Kristine Ong Muslim grew up and continues to live in a rural town in Maguindanao, southern Philippines.

Age of Blight was one of the best fiction books of 2016, according to the Chicago Review of Books, while Grim Series was included in the preliminary ballot of the Horror Writers Association’s 2012 Bram Stoker Award for Poetry and was twice nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Elgin Award. Her short stories were included in The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions 2012 (selected by Dan Chaon) and 2017 (selected by Amber Sparks), as well as the storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2011. Her short stories and poems also received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web (Dzanc Books), Best of the Net (Sundress Publications), and the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Dwarf Stars Award and Rhysling Award, as well as appeared in Boston Review, Dazed Digital, Confrontation Magazine, Conjunctions, New Welsh Review, The Cincinnati Review, The State, Tin House Online, Verse Daily, Weird Fiction Review, and World Literature Today.

Her literary works have been widely anthologized, most recently in Uncertainties: Volume IV (Swan River Press, 2020), 
The Best Small Fictions 2019 (Sonder Press, 2019), Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction (Aforementioned Productions, 2019), Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of SFF (Rosarium Publishing, 2019), Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh (Silent Motorist Media, 2019), A World of Horror (Dark Moon Books, 2018), Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018), Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation (Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2017), My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology (Meerkat Press, 2015), The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry (Aqueduct Press, 2012), and The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume One (Hadley Rille Books, 2008). 

​Her stories have also been translated into French, Czech (in Kuřata v hadí kleci), Serbian (in Autostoperski vodič kroz fantastiku), and Bulgarian (in 
Troubadours Magazine). 

Translation Work
 

Muslim is the translator of several 
bilingual editions that collect the work of Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles--Walang Halong Biro (De La Salle University Publishing House, 2018), Three Books (Broken Sleep Books , September 2020), Hollow (forthcoming from Fernwood Press), Pesoa (forthcoming from Balangay Books), and Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems (forthcoming from the University of the Philippines Press)—as well as the work of Marlon Hacla: Melismas (forthcoming from Oomph Press) and There Are Angels Walking the Fields (forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books).  She is also translating M.J. Cagumbay Tumamac's poetry collection Consider the Cast and Rogelio Braga's short story collection Is There Rush Hour in a Third World Country. Her extensively published translation work has appeared in Bat City Review, Columbia Review, Copper Nickel, Indiana Review, Nashville Review, Poetry London, Samovar, Shenandoah, Words without Borders, and elsewhere. 

Editing Background
 
Kristine Ong Muslim was the poetry editor of the now-defunct LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, a literary journal founded by Jason Erik Lundberg and published by Epigram Books in Singapore. In April 2016, she served as guest editor for the SmokeLong Quarterly microfiction contest. She was also guest co-editor with Rosebud Ben-Oni for the Winter 2014 issue of the literary journal Amethyst Arsenic and with Nalo Hopkinson for the original fiction section of the Lightspeed Magazine special issue, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction, winner of the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and one of Barnes & Noble's best sff collections and anthologies for 2016. 
With Paolo Enrico Melendez, she edited Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines, an upcoming illustrated volume from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press. 

She is guest editor/translator of Filipino-language flash fiction for Christopher Allen's Global Flash Series at SmokeLong Quarterly.  A guest-editor with Kristian Sendon Cordero for the November 2019 issue of Words without Borders, which featured translated literary works by Filipinos, she is curating a three-part Philippine folio for Anomaly.

Recent Press and Interviews
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  • 8/2020 - "Note on Translation" for Marlon Hacla's Melismas featured at The Chattahoochee Review
  • 8/2020 - Guest-edited Philippine folio: "Anomaly #30 :: Writings by Filipino Women"
  • 5/2020 - "Women Writers of Folklore and the Fantastic: Kristine Ong Muslim" by Nina Zumel
  • 4/2020 - Age of Blight in Bloomin' Great Books: "7 reads for World Earth Day"
  • 12/2019 - CNN Philippines write-up on Sigwa: "The first Filipino climate fiction anthology is coming soon" by Elizabeth Deyro
  • 11/2019 - Release of the November 2019 issue of Words without Borders, guest-edited with Kristian Sendon Cordero; Porter Anderson writes about the issue at Publishing Perspectives
  • 8/2019 - Contributor Spotlight at Bellingham Review
  • 8/2019 - Interview by Christopher Allen for SmokeLong Quarterly's Global Flash Series
  • 6/2019 - "Ten Weird Writers to Save Us All in 2019" by readers of Silent Motorist Media
  • 6/2019 - Speaker for the Philippine International Literary Festival 2019 panel on Sigwa: Climate Fiction from the Philippines
  • 4/2019 - Age of Blight in Bustle: "The Real Threat Of Climate Change, Explored In 11 Works Of Fiction" by Sadie Trombetta
  • 3/2019 - Age of Blight in Bookriot: "Reading Climate Fiction: Aftermaths" by Julia Rittenberg
  • 12/2018 - "Boltzmann Brain" in Longreads: "At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side" by Adam Boffa
  • 9/2018 - "Holocene: Microfilm Reel 82" nominated by The Cincinnati Review for Best of the Net 2018 (Sundress Publications)  
  • 5/2018 - Release of Voices on the Waters: Conversations with Five Mindanao Writers (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2018) featuring Ricardo M. de Ungria long-form interviews with Kristine Ong Muslim, Anthony L. Tan, Mehol K. Sadain, Said K. Sadain Jr., and Lina Sagaral Reyes 
  • 5/2018 - Black Arcadia in CNN Philippines: "Your 2018 summer reading list, as recommended by Filipino authors" 
  • 4/2018 - "Day of the Builders" in Bustle: "11 Sci-Fi Short Stories You Can Read For Free Right Now" by Charlotte Ahlin
  • 4/2018 - Speaker for the Philippine International Literary Festival 2018 panel on "Fiction, Displacement, and Everything in Between"
  • 12/2017 - Age of Blight in Electric Literature: "These 8 Books are Fiction, but Climate Change is Not" by Tobias Carroll
  • 12/2017 - Recommended reads for "The best Filipino books of 2017" at CNN Philippines
  • 12/2017 - Haunted Advent Calendar day 4 guest post at MooreReppion.com
  • 8/2017 - "Day of the Builders" in Chicago Review of Books: "The 10 Best Sci-Fi Stories You Can Read Online For Free" by Adam Morgan
  • 8/2017 - "12 Esensiyal na Akda sa Panulaan sa Nakaraang 12 Taon" by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles 
  • 5/2017 - National Short Story Month guest-post at Emerging Writers Network
  • 4/2017 - Write-up for PEN Center USA's Writer's Respond - Climate Change essay series
  • 2/2017 - "How places can influence the mind--and vice versa" by David Barnett
  • 9/2016 - Interview by Jeff VanderMeer at Weird Fiction Review
  • 8/2016 - Interview by William Hoffacker at The Collagist
  • 4/2016 - "Across the sea: Philippine speculative fiction reaches Czech Republic" by Aya Tantiangco
  • 4/2016 - Interview by Megan Giddings at SmokeLong Quarterly


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  • About
  • Books
    • The Drone Outside
    • Black Arcadia
    • Meditations of a Beast
    • Butterfly Dream
    • Age of Blight
    • Lifeboat
    • We Bury the Landscape
    • Grim Series
    • A Roomful of Machines
  • Anthologies
  • Magazines & Journals
  • Translation Work
  • Distinctions
  • Blog