There are no Filipinos in Mississippi
“maybe it’s the new moon / nostrils, the rounded shape / of my face, or the way I look / at him, wondering, too.”
Noreen Ocampo
Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. Her collection Not Flowers won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest, and her work also appears or is forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Sundog Lit, and Salt Hill Journal, among others. She holds a BA in English from Emory University and currently studies poetry in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.