Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor received her MA degree in English with honors from Western Washington University in 2003. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in the Katipunan Literary Magazine and the online magazine Haruah. Her short story "Yellow is for Luck" is forthcoming in the anthology tentatively titled, Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia Brainard. Currently she is working on her first novel, tentatively titled Maganda’s Comb, and she performs regularly as a storyteller with the Bellingham Storyteller's Guild.