Arvin Abejo Mangohig works as editor at the University of the Philippines Press and is the project coordinator/webmaster of panitikan.com.ph. He holds an MA in Creative Writing and is enrolled as a PhD student in the same university. His first book, The Gaze: Poems was published by the UP Press in 2003. He has won awards for his poetry and fiction and has served as the president of the UP Writers Club.
He has won the Pen&Ink College Poetry Contest, the Philippines Free Press Literary Award, the Amelia Lapena Bonifacio Literary Contest and the NVM Gonzalez Short Story Contest.
Mangohig has been published and anthologized extensively such as in the Likhaan yearly anthologies, Father Poems edited by Gemino Abad and Alfred Yuson, Ladlad 3, Philippine Panorama, The Philippines Free Press and the Philippine Graphic.