Excerpt from the "The following poems were originally part of the collection entitled "Rhapsody" which won third prize in the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature 1998, English Poetry Division."
Aida F. Santos-Maranan is an award-winning Filipino feminist activist, writer, and poet. She is known for her work on gender and development, women's rights, and human rights advocacy. She was also a political prisoner during the martial law era in the Philippines. Her contributions as a writer have earned her a place in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Artists and Writers.