Keana Aguila Labra

South Bay Cebuano

First Runner-Up for the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carl Phillips

Keana Aguila Labra (they/she) is a Cebuana-Tagalog Filipinx poet, playwright, editor, and writer in diaspora. They are the author of the chapbooks, Natalie (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2020), No Saints (Lazy Adventurer Press, 2021), Mohilak (Fahmidan & Co, 2022), Kanunay (Violet & the Bird, 2022), and their first full-length collection, The Language of Unbreaking (Sampaguita Press, 2025).