Gretchen Filart
Gretchen’s 17-year writing experience sails past freelancing for local newspapers to helming print and digital travel magazines as Editor-in-Chief. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist, her visceral pieces on love and memory appears in local and international anthologies and has earned recognition in Navigator’s Global Travel Writing Competition and the 2023 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest. Having called Manila, Makati, Camarines Sur, Albay, and most recently, Bulacan, home, she explores small infinities, intersections, and the human experience in her work, alongside advocating for equitable psychosocial health and justice as an individual with bipolar and ADHD.
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The Forest Is Where Wounds Mend
“Breath vapor escaped from my mask as the balmy streets of Kias, still wet from days-long downpour, were covered in…
Homecoming
“Home. I have called so many such, that it almost feels callous, a disservice to those who don’t have my…
Buscalan and Scars of Happiness
“I closed my eyes for a while, the taps and the raw, pricking pain in rhythmic sync. I witnessed her…
Where the Gods Play
“From where we were in the deciduous forest, hundred-year-old trees swallowed everything in their deep, dark bellies: the moon’s faint…
Of First Times, Chaos & Finding Peace in Magalawa Island
The vehicle choked often against beds of rock and asphalt. We tilted our heads back to the swarm of stars…
Contrasting Truths of Faith: Dinagat Islands
Despite its enviable biodiversity, Dinagat remains as one of the poorest provinces in the country. It is ruled by one…