A B O U T
Rachel Evangeline Chiong is a multi-field artist and academic. On paper, she is a music and culture journalist for publications such as The Philippine Reporter and A.side. She has won the Norma Epstein Foundation Award in poetry and published her short story as the national winner of the Young Writers of Canada Manuscript Contest. As a spoken word performer, she gigged with her partner in the duo Konstangeline and has facilitated workshops with the Toronto Public Library and The Kapisanan. Their poem “Kabangka” is the namesake and inspiration for the Filipinx-Canadian Youth leadership organization: Kabangka. She believes that as much as language is an art it is also a science, and graduated the University of Toronto as a linguist specialist with a focus on ultrasound technology.
She is currently working on her YA fantasy novel “Doctor Daniri and the Mythical Beasts of the Mundo” which has been awarded Ontario Arts Council’s Recommender Grants and was long listed in Voyage’s Spring 2021 First Chapters Contest.
"Dark Magic", a comic book based on her poem of the same name and illustrated by Sven, is available for purchase now.