Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipina writer-mom living in The Netherlands. When she isn’t busy chasing her toddler around the house, she writes the authors and books columnist for Munting Nayon Magazine, reviews for The Fix, and edits for Haruah: Breath of Inspiration. Her work has appeared in a mix of literary, experimental, and speculative fiction publications including Philippine Speculative Fiction volume two and volume four, Route Offline, The Second Hay(na)ku Anthology, Byzarium, Flash Me magazine and the international issue of Weird Tales Magazine. Excerpts from her poetic memoir are included in Hope Away from Home released by OMF Lit Philippines in 2007.
Visit her writing blog at: http://rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com/ or her website at http://rcloenenruiz.com/.
This is a list of the works that were either workshopped or brainstormed at Villa Diodati and have since been sold or published.
Brag List
- Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life, Interzone (2010) (VD3)
- Teaching a pink elephant how to ski, Fantasy Magazine (2009) (VD3) (and she Tuckerizes us! Try to find everyone! Must surely be the ultimate Villa Diodati story… )