About the Editor:
Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz is the Palanca award-winning author of Women Loving (2010), the first sole-author collection of lesbian-themed stories in the Philippines, which is now available in an eBook entitled Women on Fire (2015). She is Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of the Philippines Mindanao. From 2011 to 2016, she served the writing community as president of the Davao Writers Guild, which organizes readings and writers workshops in Davao City, as well as publishes new writing from Mindanao in print and on the website dagmay.online. Concurrently, she served as regional coordinator for Eastern and Southern Mindanao in the National Committee on Literary Arts. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published extensively in the Philippines. She has presented her work in literary festivals and events in Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, and Australia. Her work appears in the “New Asia Now” issue of Griffith Review, the anthologies The Near and the Far: New Stories from the Asia-Pacific Region (2016), and Sanctuary: Short Fiction from Queer Asia (2019).
Cruz has received several Philippine writing fellowships and an international writing residency from the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program. She holds a PhD from RMIT University, Australia. Her memoir about starting over in Davao City, Abi Nako, Or So I Thought was published in 2020 by the University of the Philippines Press. 

About the Book:
Pages: 272 
ISBN: 9789712735974
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Age: 18 and above
Publication year: 2021
Original language: English 
Rights available: Print, ebook, audio, subsidiary rights

Synopsis:
Most of the forty-nine works in the book were specifically solicited from the writers I know in response to the question, “What makes you tingle as a lesbian?” Literally, the sensation of “slight prickles, stings, or tremors,” the excitement. I purposely didn’t give any more qualifiers to that prompts. I wanted the writers themselves to define the terms and enact them on the page. And while the word “tingle” is a homonym for the Tagalog word for “clitoris,” many of the pieces submitted were not about sex at all. But all the pieces are about a spark of recognition, whether at the beginning, the middle, or the end, that one loves a woman as a woman. Tingle is the flint.
Here we are taking our stories of women loving women in our own hands and making ourselves visible on our own terms. When the initial thrill of desire is past, the tingle is ultimately the recognition that what we have found cannot remain in the dark—we must love and be loved in the light.
Award: Winner, 40th National Book Awards, Anthology

For further information please contact:

Arianne Velasquez
Anvil Publishing, Inc.
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Website: Anvil Publishing