Vyxz Vasquez (she/hers) is from the Philippines. She is a PhD student of literature at the University of California San Diego and has an MA in creative writing from the University of the Philippines. Her three chapbooks are One Time Big Time (2017), Pensionados (2022), and ⅄O∩ɹS; (2022). Her most recent publications can be found in Huizache: The Magazine of New America and Tupelo Quarterly. She has attended the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference as a fellow for poetry translation in 2023 and the 2024 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, and participated in Tin House and Community of Writers in 2025.