Contact Information
Website:: http://rcloenenruiz.wordpress.com/
Social Networks:: http://rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com/
Email:: rcloenenruiz@gmail.com
Bio
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in 2009 as that year’s Octavia Butler Scholar. Her work has been published in print and online, both abroad as well as in the Philippines. Some of the publications she has appeared in are: Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction Anthology (second and fourth volumes). She has stories coming out in the Second Apex Book of World SF and Realms of Fantasy. She is currently working on a tribal sf novel.
Birthday:: 26 April
Favorite Genres::
weird, sf/f, poetry
Fandoms:
Currently Reading
The Promise of the Nation, Gender, History and Nationalism in Contemporary Ilokano Literature by Roderick G. Galam
Body of Work
Short Fiction:
Dark Angel, Benigno first published at The Sword Review
Dark Angel, Benigno anthologized in The Best of Double-Edged Publishing
World in A Bubble, Reflections Edge
Rituals of Grief, Reflections Edge
Six Events in a Love Story, Byzarium
Mistress Vogel, Byzarium
The Wordeaters, Weird Tales Magazine, International Issue
Borealis, in Philippine Speculative Fiction volume two
Breaking the Spell, in Philippine Speculative Fiction volume four
**Breaking the Spell is on Rich Horton’s recommended list for The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010
**Rich Horton’s Review of PSF IV where he commends Breaking The Spell
Teaching a Pink Elephant to Ski, in Fantasy Magazine
**Teaching a Pink Elephant to Ski is reviewed by Lois Tilton on IROSF
Hi Bugan ya Hi Kinggawan, in Fantasy Magazine
**Hi Bugan ya Hi Kinggawan is reviewed by Emera on The Black Letters Blog
59 Beads, in Apex Magazine
**59 Beads received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best: 27th Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois
Mouse and I, in Kaleidotrope
**Here’s a review of Kaleidotrope #8 which includes Mouse and I.
Mouse and I, in the Ruins and Resolve Anthology
The Return of the Sun, in the Ruins and Resolve Anthology
Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life, in Interzone 229
**Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life will be reprinted in the second volume of The Apex Book of World SF
**Interzone 229 is reviewed by Colin Harvey at Suite 101
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Creative non-fiction:
Through the Woods, in PATMOS (a publication of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture)
Echoes from My New Home, in Hope Away from Home (OMF Lit, Philippines)
Falling in Love, in Chickflicks Ezine (defunct)*
Missing Home on the Asia and Pacific Writers Network
My Skin, Us, first published in the Skin Byteback Book released by Route
**anthologized in Route Offline
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Poetry:
Estol, the Hunchback, The Orange Room Review
Through the Looking Glass, Dragons, Knights and Angels Magazine
Angel without Wings, Dragons, Knights and Angels Magazine
Samples of Work
Short Fiction:
Dark Angel, Benigno first published at The Sword Review
World in A Bubble, Reflections Edge
Rituals of Grief, Reflections Edge
Six Events in a Love Story, Byzarium
Mistress Vogel, Byzarium
Teaching a Pink Elephant to Ski, in Fantasy Magazine
Hi Bugan ya Hi Kinggawan, in Fantasy Magazine
59 Beads, in Apex Magazine
Creative non-fiction:
Missing Home on the Asia and Pacific Writers Network
Poetry:
Estol, the Hunchback, The Orange Room Review
Through the Looking Glass, Dragons, Knights and Angels Magazine
Angel without Wings, Dragons, Knights and Angels Magazine
