Janet B. Villa graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo School of Law in 1991 and an AB Economics degree from the UP School of Economics. She practiced law for 9 years before she joined the National Writers' Workshop in May 2001 in Dumaguete and immediately enrolled that June at UP Diliman for an MA in CW. Her first published story "Undercurrents" won the NVM Grand Prize in 2003. Her second published story "Closopen" won the NVM Grand Prize Special Prize in 2005.

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