Deedle Rodriguez Tomlinson was born and raised in the Philippines. Her poems,
reflecting her peripatetic life, appear in Under The Storm: An Anthology of
Contemporary Philippine Poetry, the online travel publication Wonderlust Travel,
Live Encounters, Write Forward: the 2025 IWWG Anthology, the literary issue of
the Silliman University Journal, as well as Tomas, the University of Santo Tomas
literary journal. Her first short story, touching on Philippine mythology, was
published in Mom Egg Review and was nominated for the 2023 PEN/Robert J.
Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is Program Manager for New
York Writers Workshop and currently lives in West Orange, NJ.