Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is a creative and critical scholar from the Philippines who is currently based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (lands) of the syilx / Okanagan peoples. Her poems have been previously published in numerous magazines and journals, some of which are World Literature Today, Asteri(x), g u e s t, The Hopper, The Global South, Elemental, Ekopoetikon, and more. She is also the editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (UST Publishing House, 2018), and co-editor of Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific (University of Michigan Press, 2022) and Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting (University of Hawai’i Press, 2024). Rina is currently completing her poetry collection, “A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards,” which is a visual and poetic response environmental injustice in migrant cultures and liminal spaces.