Lakambini Sitoy

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Lakambini A. Sitoy (1969- ) is a multiawarded writer from Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Silliman University and her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines. She is currently working on a postgraduate degree at Roskilde University in Denmark.

Sitoy's stories, novels and nonfiction have been published in Manoa, Sands and Coral, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Likhaan Anthology of Poetry and Fiction, Story Philippines, The Best Philippine Stories, The Evening Paper, Today, Firefly, The Golden Loom, Preview, and many other anthologies in the Philippines, Finland, France and the U.S.A..

Sitoy has received writing fellowships from the National Writers' Workshop in Dumaguete (1989) and the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop (1990). She has also received numerous prizes in the annual Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, a Philippines Free Press Award (1994) and a National Book Award from the Manila Critics' Circle for Mens Rea and Other Stories, a collection of prizewinning stories (1999). She later bagged the highly-coveted David T.K. Wong fellowship from the University of East Anglia (2003) and a Hawthornden Castle residency in Midlothian, Scotland (2004). As a journalist, Sitoy also served as a lifestyle and cultural section editor and columnist for the Manila Times.