Ana Margarita Nuñez

Ana Margarita R. Nuñez is a PhD in Literature candidate from De La Salle University. She is an English teacher by profession, although she is currently serves as an academic coordinator assisting in the online learning program of a small basic education institution. Her hobbies and interests include art and history. At present, she is writing a novel about her hometown of Iligan City. She is married with two children.

  • Affected Sectors

    Pusang Gala But she’s got beautiful eyes, Mama!My little boy points to the calico cat.They glitter when it’s nightWhen they’re not oozing.I agree, they’re sympatheticEven honourable, battle-scarred,The tips of her ears all shades of redRaw pink rose burgundy maroon purpleHer tail, a broken stump,Ugly and furless, raised and defiant;She picks scraps from the neighbour’s drain.

  • The Settler Settles In: Locating a Space for the Settler in Rogelio Braga’s Colon

    What if one flees the enemy or better, pursues him only to find that the enemy is one’s self?  Such is the fate of the post-colonial subject, whether identified with the colonizer or the colonized.  Indeed, one could argue that the lines between colonizer and colonized, such as they were drawn, have long bled into…