Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. Her collection NOT FLOWERS won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest, and she enjoys writing about moonrise, Animal Crossing, and ube cake, among other things. She holds a BA in English from Emory University and currently studies poetry in the MFA program at The University of Mississippi.
If you’d like to read her work, some of her most recent publications are below. Thank you for your time!
“I want to join them. I want them / to see me in my tsinelas, another short girl struggling / to hurtle a trash bag into the bin.”
— “There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi (Anderson Grove)”
in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
“Come to the dinner table without the day’s baggage. Eat with a smile on your face.”
— “Zuihitsu with Lessons from Dad”
in The Margins
“The man cocks his head. My hands tremble. / In the South, winter comes out of nowhere.”
— “There are no Filipinos in Mississippi (Price Street)”
in TLDTD