Mia P. Manansala is a Filipino American writer and poet based in Los Angeles. She is the author of the poetry collection "The Yearning Feed," which was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Offing, The Margins, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman and VONA/Voices fellow, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.