Wina Puangco-Mutuc is a writer, educator, and talent development professional. Her work has appeared in publications such as Driftwood Press, Plural Online Prose Journal, TAYO Literary Magazine, the Southern Pacific Review, and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. She was a finalist for the 2015 Sozopol Fiction Fellowship and the recipient of the 2019 Poetry in English Mini Grant from the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center. In 2020, she was a fellow for the University of Sto. Tomas National Writers’ Workshop.
She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from De La Salle University Manila, where she teaches as a Lecturer for the Department of Literature.
Her masteral thesis, Functions:Poems, won the Outstanding Thesis Award and the National Book Development Board Publication Grant 2023. Functions:Poems is out now from Grana Books.
Professionally, she has worked as the Program Manager for Enderun Extension, the continuing education arm of Enderun Colleges, Programme Assistant & Secretariat Team Lead for the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crimes handling the Health & Drugs, Anti-Corruption, and Environmental Crime portfolios, as well as the Program Manager for Training & Development at the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines. She currently teaches at De La Salle University under the Department of Literature.