Mikael de Lara Co was born on April 2, 1983 in Makati City. He graduated with a BS in Environmental Science from the Ateneo de Manila, and he is supposed to be working on his MA in Panitikang Pilipino - Malikhaing Pagsulat in the same university. A fellow of the Ateneo, UST, Iyas and Dumaguete National Writers Workshops, Mikael has been writing primarily in Filipino since his college days. He has received recognition for his poetry, including print space in the Philippines Free Press, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Aklat Likhaan, Dapitan, Tomas, Matanglawin, Pilosopo Tasyo, and Heights. He has also published fiction and non-fiction in Heights, Matanglawin and Manila Bulletin . His works are available on-line, specifically through Tinig.com, ThunderSandwich.com and his personal weblog Abo sa Dila. He has only begun to write poetry in English.
Kael has served as editor and staffer of Heights , and has experience in editing, teaching and translating. He plays lead guitar for the new wave/punk/blues band Los Chupacabras, and is lead vocalist for Gapos, a progressive rock/jazz/blues band with a social realist bent.
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