Carla Montemayor is a writer originally from the Philippines, now based in London. She won a London Writers Award for narrative nonfiction in 2021 and was a fellow on the London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2022-23. Her writing has been shortlisted for Spread the Word’s Life Writing Award (2020), and the Specimen Press competition To Speak England in Different Languages (2021). She has contributed work to acclaimed food writing anthology London Feeds Itself (2022), and her essay ‘The Shapeshifters’ in Hinterland Magazine was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021.