He is the editor of Alternative Alamat (Flipside, 2011), and is a writer for prose and comics. His fiction has been published in venues such as Scheherazade's Façade, Philippine Genre Stories, Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, Lauriat, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction series. Note: The world of Philippine magic is deep and wide—something that is to be expected of a land with anywhere from sixty to a hundred indigenous cultures, each with their own cultural heritage and oral traditions. I've limited my scope to the three general categories of magic that are most well known in Philippine pop culture (although I tried to shed some light on some of the more obscure aspects of each). The rich worlds of magic of particular indigenous communities, as well as magical feats performed in regional epics, are not considered here. I'm presenting my discussion of magic in the form of a "course catalog" for an imagined school of Philippine magic (named after the Visayan goddess of charms).
