Kabel Mishka Ligot

Kabel Mishka Ligot is currently a first-year MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also works as an instructor in Creative Writing. Originally from Quezon City, he received his bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Mishka has poems published in Akda: The Asian Journal for Literature, Culture, and Performance and in Bukambibig Poetry Folio; he also writes articles for CNN Philippines. Very new to America and the sprawling Midwest, Mishka can be found either hiding from the cold or lurking in the aisles of the only Asian grocery in the city.