Moon Dog and Rainbow Dreaming

Praise for Maleia Mortis “I Dreamt of Gold”

“As the poem’s speaker works to find their musicality and lyricism, we see them also arrive at a deep knowledge of the beauty of heritage and history residing within.”

-Barbara Jane Reyes, author of Diwata, Letters to a Young Brown Girl, Daughtersong Diaspore, and others

“Flores, often with no more than the tantalizing flourish of a dependent clause, ushers you into fantastic worlds where everyday concerns mingle with the frightening, the lurid, and the sublime.”

- Ben Curl, author, artist, Capital Letters Eclectic Fiction

J.J. de Melo (he/him) is an author based in San Francisco, California, where much of his writing is intimately tied to his background as a gay, Bay Area native with Filipino and Portuguese roots. As both a reader and writer, his first love is science fiction, especially anything slipstream or new weird. He also has a strong taste for literary fiction, horror, magical realism, and cocktails that blend any of the above. He is an active member of the literary community at the City College of San Francisco, where he earned his Associate of Arts degree in Creative Writing. He also holds advanced degrees in Public Health and Epidemiology, working a double life as an author-scientist.

Maleia Mortis is a queer Filipinx-American experimental poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their poems have appeared in Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, BuliLit Magazine by Sampaguita Press, and Datura Literary Journal.

Monica T. S. Flores writes magical realism informed by Filipino culture. She loves to explore cryptids, including mermaids and giants, alongside spirits, the undead, extraterrestrials, and robots. Her stories are in the benefit anthology “Hope is Not Passive,” Faoileánach Journal, Amethyst Review, and Capital Letters Eclectic Fiction. Her poetry is in “Haunt” by Michigan State University Libraries and at the Capital City Film Festival. Her origin story, The Forty-First Day: Selurong Arrival, is recognized on the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) 2026 Asian/Pacific American Heritage reading list.

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