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Monica Anne Batac

Monica Anne Batac (she/they/siya) is a teacher, community organizer, and Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Social Work at McGill University. Monica identifies as a second-generation Filipina/x in the Canadian diaspora, born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto). She is currently residing between Whitehorse, Yukon; Montreal, Quebec; and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Monica’s writings include Growing Up Pinay, published in 2020 as part of the Home is in the Body anthology by ANAK Publishing, and “’Failing’ and Finding a Filipina Diasporic Scholarly ‘Home’: A De/Colonizing Autoethnography,” published in 2021/22 in the academic journal, Qualitative Inquiry.

Books by Monica Anne Batac

Magdaragat

An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing

contributions by C.E. Gatchalian, Teodoro Alcuitas, Patria Rivera, Jim Agapito, Hari Alluri, Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, Mila Bongco-Philipzig, Davey Samuel Calderon, Shirley Camia, Adrian De Leon, Nathalie De Los Santos, Kawika Guillermo, Marc Perez, Leah Ranada, Steffi Tad-y, Vincent Ternida, Christine Añonuevo, Kaia M. Arrow, Isabel Palanxe Aureus, Leon B. Aureus, Jellyn Ayudan, Hannah Balba, Monica Anne Batac, Alexa Batitis, Isabel Carlin, Rachel Evangeline Chiong, Karla Comanda, Kay Costales, Gemma Dalayoan, Ariel Dela Cruz, Sol Diana, Erica Dionora, Carolyn Fe, Renato Gandia, Primrose Madayag Knazan, José Romelo Lagman, Yves Lamson, Grace Sanchez MacCall, Lorina Mapa, Deann Louise C. Nardo, Christopher Nasaire, Rafael Palma, Remilyn Felix Lydia Aiden Fau Policarpio, Alma Salazar Retuta, Rani Rivera, Aileen Santiago, Angelo Santos, Carlo Sayo & Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera