Lani T. Montreal  writes to create her home in the diaspora. She is a queer feminist Filipina educator, writer, performer, and community activist based in Chicago, whose works have been published/produced in North America, the Philippines, and in cyberspace. She is a two-time 3Arts Residency Awardee (2009 and 2016) and a 2017 alumna of the VONA Writers of Color Workshop.