Gabriella Buba is a writer and chemical engineer who likes to keep explosive pyrophoric materials safely contained in pressure vessels or between the covers of her books. She writes adult romantic fantasy for bold, bi, brown women who deserve to see their stories centered. She has a Filipino Fantasy short story in the anthology Strange Religion: Speculative Fiction of Spirituality, Belief, & Practice and winter 2022 short stories placed in Sci Phi Journal and PodCastle Fiction and an essay on Filipino Identity and Language in Prairie Fire Press. Gabriella is a Pitch Wars 2021 alumni. Follow her on Twitter @GabriellaBuba.