Six students. Six mentors. Twelve stories. One country’s fate. In 2017, college professor Jocelyn Martin invited her freshmen English classes to write fiction stories about the issue of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. Six of the best stories were chosen for publication. Her fellow teacher Cyan Abad-Jugo invited professional writers to mentor these students in polishing their stories and in learning more about how to process this very complex topic, all while contributing their own written pieces in response. What resulted was an anthology of creative responses to a crucial subject, a conversation between generations, and a memorial against oblivion. Triggered is YA (young adult fiction) written by YA. Edited by Jocelyn S. Martin and Cyan Abad-Jugo.
Authors
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.
Jamie Bautista graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Communications, and has spent the years since then as a freelance graphic designer, writer and teacher. He taught classes in English literature and comics theory and appreciation at Ateneo de Manila University, The Beacon School, Assumption College and Xavier School. He is currently also general manager at LSA Printing Press and publisher of Nautilus Comics. He has published the National Book Award winning Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion. He is the creator of the long-running comic series Cast (www.castcomic.com), which is his other collaboration with artist Arnold Arre. (from the Private Iris website)
