Jeena Rani Marquez is the author of Beyond Words (Pahiwatig ng Lambing), The River of Gold, and the co-author of The Night that Changed the River. She was an ASEAN fellow of the Singapore International Foundation and has undergone training in creative writing in London.  She is also a recipient of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. She teaches semantics at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Philippines.
Year: 2017