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Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet. She is the author of two chapbooks: There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi, published by Porkbelly Press in 2025, and Not Flowers, which won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest. She has received scholarships and support from the McCormack Writing Center (previously Tin House), Monson Arts, and the Longleaf Writers Conference, and her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. An editor for Sampaguita Press, Noreen is at work on a full-length poetry collection, which was named a finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and the Deep Line Poetry Series. She holds a BA in English from Emory University and an MFA from the University of Mississippi. Noreen is from and currently based in metro Atlanta, where she works in higher ed. Her family comes from Pangasinan, Philippines.