From KUTING:

Lara Saguisag, former faculty member of the UP Diliman Department of English and Comparative Literature, won the 2006 Writing for Children Chapbook Series for her collection of poems, “Children of Two Seasons.” The chapbook will be released either in late March or early April 2007.

The 2006 Writing for Children Chapbook Series is a writing competition organized by the Writing Program of The New School, a university in Greenwich Village, New York known for its commitment to creative writing. The 75-year-old university is described as “a vital center for writing and instruction of writing.”

Edgar Award-nominated novelist Peter Abrahams, judge of the competition, described Saguisag in his foreword to the chapbook as having “a gift for writing poetry that I think children will love. She’s deft with animals—‘frogs, tadpoles, water buffalo’—and never falls into any anthropomorphic traps.

“She’s funny. She has a fine eye for detail—‘a tiny black outburst’ of escaping tadpoles, a fly landing on a bald head at an endless church service. She can be deeply moving, as in ‘Grandma’s Dreams’ where dreams of the old are passed down to the sleeping young.
“Her technique is strong, her rhythmic sense, timing, syntax, and imagery all polished. And finally the voice, the authentic voice of the bright, curious, reasonably happy child: the very best thing Ms. Saguisag does is to not let her well-chosen words get in the way of that voice.”

Saguisag is one of the founding members and past president of KUTING (Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting). Her published titles include, "There's a Duwende in my Brother's Soup!", "Tonyo's Wishes' and the recently released, "Cat Eyes."

(from UP newsletter)