About
Lystra Aranal Cole is a writer based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Her short stories and one-act play have won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her fiction, essay, and poetry have been published in Kweli Journal, TAYO Literary Magazine, Esquire Philippines, and other contemporary Philippine anthologies.
She is in the process of completing a collection of short stories and outlining her first novel ‘Head-Talk’.
She calls both Singapore and Manila home.