Mila Bongco-Philipzig

Mila Bongco-Philipzig is a writer, visual artist, and community organizer. She has published five bilingual (Filipino-English) children’s books. She also translated two children’s books from Filipino to German, which were included in the Frankfurter Buchmesse (2022), the largest book fair in the world. Mila has poetry, short stories, and essays published in various magazines, anthologies, and podcasts in the Philippines, Canada, and Germany. In 2021, Mila was a featured artist for Edmonton Arts Council’s Asian Heritage Month, and the first featured reader for Edmonton Public Library’s Multilingual Storytime. She is currently the coordinator for the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s Horizon Writers Circle mentorship program for BIPOC writers and serves as the lead for the People of Colour Committee in Stantec. In addition to writing and painting, Mila organizes cultural community events, runs long distance, and is an active advocate for inclusion, human rights, and social justice.