Rina Garcia Chua

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 nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of Net awards, and have been previously published in many anthologies, magazines, and journals worldwide. Her forthcoming poetry collection, A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards (Sampaguita Press, 2026), is a self-reflexive visual response to socio-environmental injustices in liminal migrant cultures.