Elsa Valmidiano is an Ilocana-American essayist and poet. She is the author of We Are No Longer Babaylan, her award-winning debut essay collection from New Rivers Press. Her book reviews appear in Poetry Northwest, The Collidescope, Bridge Eight, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Her poetry and prose are widely published in literary journals and anthologies where her work most recently appears in Marías at Sampaguitas, Canthius, Hairstreak Butterfly Review, and MUTHA Magazine. On her website, slicingtomatoes.com, Elsa curates a directory of Pinay visual artists from the Philippines and Diaspora whose work she features alongside her poetry and prose.