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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 were translated into French, Polish, 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 (University of the Philippines Press, 2021)—as well as the work of Marlon Hacla: Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020), There Are Angels Walking the Fields (forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books), and Glossolalia (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse).  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 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 also a guest editor/translator of Filipino-language flash fiction for Christopher Allen's Global Flash Series at SmokeLong Quarterly.  

She edits, with Gutierrez Mangansakan II, the Bangsamoro Literary Review. 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​