Hope Sabanpan-Yu

Hope Sabanpan-Yu is a short story writer/poet from Cebu City, Philippines. She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and her Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary (Canada). She is currently working on a research project on prostitute figures in Indonesian women's writings and also a study on the "querida" in selected Cebuano fiction by women writers.

A member of the Women in Literary Arts (WILA), Hope writes both in Cebuano and in English. Her poetry has been published in several collections: Paglaum (2000), Ang Tingog ni Maria (2001), Beads (2002) and Mga Dad-onon sa Biyahe (2004). She has recently published (2008). Her latest work Mila's Mother (2008), published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, is a translation of Austregelina Espina-Moore's serialized novel entitled "Ang Inahan ni Mila"."

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* [http://152.1.96.5/jouvert//v4i3/Hopeyu.htm]

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