Poet Elsa Valmidiano

Enjoy poems and short poetic prose pieces from poet Elsa Valmidiano’s chapbook-in-progress, which centers on the women who shaped and continue to shape her identity and her perspective.

Philippine-born and LA-raised Elsa Valmidiano is a writer, poet, feminist, literary activist, globe trekker, and women’s freedom fighter. Elsa began writing as early as she started reading. Though life took some turns as she studied law and became an activist for women’s rights in the U.S. and her motherland, the Philippines, she never stopped writing and incorporates much of her activism into her writing, preferring to term herself “literary activist.”