NOREEN OCAMPO

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 is also the author of There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi, forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. She holds a BA in English from Emory University and studies poetry in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, where she is working to document and elevate stories of Filipino Americans in the Deep South. She enjoys translucent orange, matcha, and the tags connected to most tea bags. Her family comes from Pangasinan, Philippines.