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Genevieve Asenjo

Genevieve L. Asenjo (b. 1979) is an award-winning multilingual Filipino poet, novelist, fictionist, essayist, translator, children’s book author, academic, and literary scholar. She is celebrated for her body of work in three Philippine languages: Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon, and Filipino, and for her advocacy in writing mentorship, cultural volunteerism, and storytelling. She is featured in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (Literature, 2018). She has been awarded international writing fellowships, including residencies in Seoul, South Korea (2009), and at the International Writing Program (IWP) of the University of Iowa, USA (2012).

Asenjo’s work engages with urgent and enduring themes: inter-island migration and diaspora, the lives of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), women’s stories, indigenous knowledge systems, regional and postcolonial identities, and the environmental crises surrounding food security, rivers, water, and mountains. Her writing also contributes to the emerging Filipino Gothic or archipelagothic—a mode rooted in folklore, colonial trauma, and global hauntings.