Adrian De Leon is an Abagatan (Southern) Ilokano writer and cultural educator from Barangay Bagong Tanyag in Manila by way of Scarborough, Ontario. He teaches Philippine culture in classrooms, museums, and martial arts gyms. His first book, Rouge, was published in 2018 by Mawenzi House. Adrian was a Fulbright Scholar in Hawai‘i and Seattle in 2017-2018, and he is finishing a PhD in History at the University of Toronto. He is currently working on his second poetry collection and a first novella.