Christine Veloso Lao, a Philippine lawyer, received Ateneo de Manila University's Dean's Award for Poetry and the Essay in 1995. She was editor of the Filipino section of Heights, Ateneo's literary magazine, and was a fellow at the second Ateneo Summer Writer's Workshop and Silliman National Writers Workshop. She was a staff writer for The Sunday Times Magazine and wrote two columns ("Afterthought", "Generation Ek") for the Manila Times. She has edited a series of books on law and policy reform for the Asian Development Bank. Her work has appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Manila Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, and the National Book Review. Her poems have appeared in Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippines Poetry and the special issue of Kritika Kultura. Her stories have been featured in Philippine Speculative Fiction; Philippine Genre Stories; the Philippines Free Press; and the Philippines Graphic. She earned her MA in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines.