Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipina writer living in The Netherlands. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of online and print publications including Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and Philippine Speculative Fiction volumes two and four. She is the co-author of the inspirational book, Hope Away from Home (OMF Lit, Philippines), and is a member of the Villa Diodati expatworkshop.

She will be attending the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 2009. She blogs at: http://rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com