Welcome to Rochita’s homepage. Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipino writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, Rochita was the recipient of the 2009 Octavia Butler Scholarship, and the first Filipina writer to attend Clarion West. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and Weird Tales Magazine. In the Philippines, her short fiction has been published in Philippine Panorama, Philippine Speculative Fiction volume two, and Philippine Speculative Fiction volume four.
Rochita currently resides in The Netherlands with her husband and her two children. She writes a regular column for Munting Nayon, the Filipino-Dutch community paper, and is a communications volunteer for Stichting Bayanihan (a self-help women’s organization with the goal of empowering Filipinas in the Netherlands and helping Filipinas to integrate into the Dutch society).
News:
December 2011
Rich Horton and Sean Wallace announce the TOC for Robots: the Recent A.I. anthology–Alternate Girl will be reprinted in this anthology.
Rocket Kapre has released the Alternative Alamat anthology which includes Harinuo’s Love Song
October 2011
Return to Paraiso is out in the October 2011 issue of Realms of Fantasy
March 2011
Realms of Fantasy has accepted “Return to Paraiso” for publication
September 2010
Lavie Tidhar announces the TOC for the second volume of the Apex Book of World SF.
“Breaking the Spell” will be appearing in the first issue of Fantastique Unfettered.
“Harinuo’s Love Song” has been accepted for the Alternative Alamat anthology editted by Paolo Chikiamco.
“Catching an Angel” my one-minute weird tale with video by Gregory Bossert is now live.
