Christine F. Godinez-Ortega completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Literature and Creative Writing at Silliman University and postgraduate study in Creative Writing at the De La Salle University, Manila. She is Head of the National Literary Arts Committee, Secretary of the Sub-Commission on the Arts, Director of the Iligan National Writers Workshop, and Director of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology(MSU-IIT) Office of Publication and Information (OPI). She is a writer, journalist, cultural worker, and faculty at the Department of English, College of Arts & Social Sciences, MSU-IIT. She received the Umpil Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Education and the 2016 CMO Asia Award for leadership in education. 
Year: 2017