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Erma Cuizon is an award-winning Filipino writer born and raised in the central Philippine island of Cebu. She edits Sun Star Daily’s Sunday magazine, Sun Star Weekend, and writes a regular column there. Click on the Bird By Bird section to view some of her columns.  Click on Word Works to read excerpts from her short stories and a sample of her poetry. 

Among her literary awards were the prestigious Philippine Free Press Literary Award for Fiction and the Mariano Manguerra Award for Outstanding Writer in the Literary Arts. Erma Cuizon has a bachelor's degree in literature from the College of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.  She is active in a local literary women’s group, the Women in Literary Arts-Cebu, and was one of its founding members. 

Erma's first book, Time of Year is a collection of essays, published by Giraffe Books in 1999.  Her second book published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House is a collection of short stories titled, Homecoming and Other Stories.   She has recently published her second collection of essays, Vital Flow and is currently working on a novel, which she hopes to publish next year.

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