Hope Sabanpan-Yu

Who is 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 and her Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary. She is completing 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.

Hope currently serves as the Central Visayas coordinator of the National Committee on Literary Arts. She is also the secretary of the Women Studies Association of the Philippines. A member of the Women in Literary Arts and Bathalan-ong Halad sa Dagang, Hope writes both in Cebuano and in English. Her poetry has been published in several collections: Paglaum, Ang Tingog ni Maria, Beads and Mga Dad-onon sa Biyahe. She edited two anthologies of interviews with Cebuano writers, Kapulongan: Conversations with Cebuano Writers, and Kulokabildo: Dialogues with Cebuano Writers published by the USC Cebuano Studies Center. She co-edited Small wonder: a collection of essays with Paolo Macachor, published by USC Press.