Kristian Sendon Cordero is a poet, fictionist, translator, and filmmaker based in Bikol. His books of poetry in three Philippine languages have won the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award, the Philippine National Book Awards, and the Gintong Aklat Awards (Golden Book Awards). In 2017, he represented the Philippines in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He was also appointed artist-in-residence by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has translated the works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Oscar Wilde into Bikol and Filipino. Cordero’s current projects include the Bikol translations of José Rizal’s two novels. In 2019, he received the Southeast Asian Writers Prize (SEA Write) in Bangkok, Thailand, from the Thai monarchy. In 2022, he was named artist-in-residence at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study in South Africa. He currently serves as the director of the Ateneo de Naga University Press and runs an independent bookshop and art space, the Savage Mind, in his home city.