Aileen Espinoza Abadingo has 20 years of teaching experience. She started as a pre-school teacher and became an ESL and elementary teacher. She holds a BA Journalism degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman and is taking her MA in Reading Education from the same university. She also took Language and Literacy Education as a diploma course in UP Open University. 

At present, Aileen teaches at the Junior College program of UA&P. During her spare time, she reads novels and writes journals. She plans to finish her first novel before she turns 50.

Vince Agcaoili is an instructor, poet, and musician.

He holds an MA in Humanities, Major in Literature, from UA&P. His thesis focused on a postcolonial reading of the late modernist Jose Garcia Villa’s critical essays, short stories, and poems. His research interests lie primarily in Philippine literature and ecopoetry. He teaches literature and poetry under the Department of Literature and the Humanities Program of the College of Arts and Sciences.

As a poet, Vince was a fellow of the first iteration of Tara, Tula 2020; the UST National Writers’ Workshop 2021; the Spring 2021 fellowship of Albertus Magnus Institute (Sacramento, USA); and the IYAS National Writers’ Workshop 2022. His works have appeared in Tita Lacambra Ayala’s Road Map Series Heritage, UA&P’s The Bosun, Novice Magazine, Ilahas Literary Journal, Luna Journal: A Semi-Annual Journal of New Filipino Writing, Audience Askew, and are forthcoming in UST’s Tomas and in The Manila Magnolia. He is currently at work on his first  full-length collection of poems.

As a musician, Vince was the songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist of the rock outfit At the Moment. He is currently the songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist of the independent rock band Eskinita.

Mula sa bayan ng Binangonan, Rizal si Louise Vincent B. Amante. Nagtapos siya ng BA Malikhaing Pagsulat sa Filipino at ng MA Araling Pilipino sa UP Diliman. Kasalukuyan siyang instruktor ng Filipino sa University of Asia & the Pacific.

Naging Fellow siya para sa Tula sa Filipino ng Ikatlong Palihang Rogelio Sicat ng UP Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas noong 2010; sa 11th Iyas National Writers Workshop ng University of St. La Salle-Bacolod noong 2011; at sa 20th Iligan National Writers Workshop ng Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology noong 2013. Kasapi siya ng Angono 3/7 Poetry Society at Neo-Angono Artists Collective.

Raul Sevilla Calsado holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of Santo Tomas and a Master of Arts in Teaching Literature from the Philippine Normal University. A 20-year loyalty awardee of UA&P, he currently teaches Classical Literature and Dante. He served as associate editor of CAS Review, a publication of the UA&P College of Arts and Sciences. 

Dr. Yvette Camacho is a historian of the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. She earned her doctoral degree in History at the University of Navarra in Spain, and her master’s degree in Liberal Arts from the same university. She graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a bachelor’s degree in Humanities (Interdisciplinary track), magna cum laude.
Most of her publications focus on the institutional history of women’s education, the Filipino feminine ethos from a historical perspective, and the introduction of Christian marriage in its legal, sociocultural, and ecclesiastical dimensions. Her current project continues to explore the sociocultural and economic aspects of women’s lives during the Spanish period in Philippine history.
Aside from her teaching and research activities, she has occupied academic administrative posts in the University. At present, as Vice President of Faculty Affairs, she pursues projects to cultivate teaching and research excellence in UA&P.

Fr. Alfred Robert V. Cruz lectures in the Religion Department of the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a PhD in Philosophy with specialization in Metaphysics from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome, Italy) and a Bachelor in Theology from the University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain).  He graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He obtained his license as an architect in 2011 and worked as an architect for three years before he began his ecclesiastical studies abroad.