NOREEN OCAMPO

Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. Her collection Not Flowers won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest, and she is also the author of There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi, forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. Aiming to elevate stories of Filipino Americans living in the South, she earned her MFA from the University of Mississippi and also holds a BA in English from Emory University. She enjoys translucent orange, matcha, and the tags connected to most tea bags. Her family comes from Pangasinan, Philippines.