Vida Cruz-Borja

Vida Cruz-Borja is a Filipina fantasy and science fiction writer, editor, teacher, artist, tarot reader, and conrunner. Her short fiction and essays have been published in F&SF, Fantasy, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and various anthologies. She won the 2022 IGNYTE Award for Best Creative Nonfiction for “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist,” which was reprinted in Letters to a Writer of Color (2023). She is the author of the fantasy horror novella Mirror Marked (2025), and two short story collections: Beyond the Line of Trees (2019) and Song of the Mango and Other New Myths (2022), the latter of which won the Cirilo F. Bautista Prize for Best Fiction in English at the 41st Philippine National Book Awards. Her work in her different fields has been nominated, longlisted, and recommended for the Hugo Award, the British Science Fiction Award, and the James Tiptree Jr. (now Otherwise) Award. She was co-director of FiyahCon Fringe BonFiyah under the larger umbrella of FIYAHCON, a BIPOC-centered convention for science fiction and fantasy readers and writers, as well as a 2018 Tiptree Fellow. Currently, she’s a freelance book editor with Tessera Editorial and The Darling Axe and is the founder and owner of Arcane Oblong Editorial and Design.