Micah Dela Cueva is a Filipina writer residing in New Jersey. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from LIU, Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Defunct, Speculative Nonfiction, and The Bangalore Review. She was a finalist for the 2026 Bellingham Review 49th Parallel Award in Poetry and for the 2022 Palette Poetry Emerging Poet Prize. She recently discovered the joy of papermaking from recycled paper.