Joel M. Toledo holds a Masters degree in Poetry from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Author of three books of poetry and editor of two poetry anthologies, Toledo was a winner of the Bridport Prize for Poetry. In 2011, Toledo was granted residencies by the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy and the International Writing Program (IWP) in Iowa, USA. Toledo is currently working on a new collection of poems. He is an assistant professor at the English Department of Miriam College.