Chuck D. Smith is a pop culture journalist and essayist based in Manila. He studied Journalism at the University of Santo Tomas and is now taking his MFA in Creative Writing at the De La Salle University-Manila. He has received prizes for his nonfiction from the Palanca Awards, Iceland Writers Retreat, and Gawad Usteika, among others.

• Poetry : A walk in London during the year of the Great Plague

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