Patricia Justine Tumang (also known as "Patty"), co-editor of the Seal Press anthology entitled Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time, was awarded a 2008-09 Fulbright fellowship to conduct research for her novel in the Philippines. The recipient of a 2007 Hedgebrook Residency for Women Authoring Change, she earned an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, CA in 2006.  Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and she is the literature editor at Hyphen, a magazine about Asian America for the culturally and politically savvy.