Karla Comanda

Karla Comanda (they/she) is a poet, playwright, editor, translator, educator, and arts administrator. Their poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, filling station, decomp, Poetry is Dead, Room Magazine, and others. She has taught writing workshops for the UBC Philippine Studies Series, Vancouver Public Library, Migrante BC, La Salle University – Ozamiz, Western Mindanao State University, Co.ERASGA, and other organizations and institutions. In 2019, Karla hosted the Sinag-Araw Writing Workshop, a poetry workshop series created for Filipino youth in the diaspora.