Nikki Alfar
Nikki Alfar is a wife, mother, fictionist, dancer, kickboxer, knitter, and origami folder. While she has yet to receive acclaim for folding, knitting, boxing, dancing, mothering, or wifing – go figure – she has managed to cadge repeated recognition out of the Palanca, Nick Joaquin, and international Mariner literary authorities, as well as back-to-back National Book Awards for her story collections WonderLust (Anvil Publishing) and Now, Then, and Elsewhen (UST Press).
She’s edited more speculative fiction anthologies than she can count – there’ve been many, and her math is egregious – including the acclaimed, annual Philippine Speculative Fiction. By trade, she’s a marketing and corporate copywriter, meaning she writes fiction alllll the time.
Nikki smokes like a chimney, and has one grandbunny and two children with writer Dean Francis Alfar – Ryo, 18, is also a published writer, and Rowan, 12, is an accomplished calligrapher.
