Mica De Leon is a Filipino writer of swoony romance comedy novels and SFF novels. She is the author of the romance book, Love on The Second Read, published by Penguin Random House SEA. She has won the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature in 2019 and 2022 for her essays on romance, feminism, history, fantasy, and the Filipino identity in the aftermath of Martial Law and the 2022 presidential elections in the Philippines. She likes walking on the beach, dogs, cats, swoony and spicy romance novels, long epic SFF novels, and Taylor Swift.