KRISTENE CRISTOBAL

 

Makibaka!

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kristene Cristobal writes and works ‘bi-hemispherically’ in California and New Zealand. She has published in Another Chicago Magazine, was selected for a VONA/Voices’ Summer fiction workshop, has a MS in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and is earning a MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters. This piece is the first chapter of Makibaka! – a novel about the contemporary Filipinx American experience, carrying the history of colonialism in the diaspora.