Rina Garcia Chua

Rina Garcia Chua is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She edited the first anthology of Philippine ecopoetry, Sustaining the Archipelago, published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, and is also the author of several ecocritical essays, short stories, poems, and educational textbooks. Nowadays, she enjoys hiking in the woods of British Columbia as much as she relishes swimming in the warmer corridors of the Pacific Ocean. She also wants to try ice climbing next winter.