Hello there, my name is Elizabeth. I am an award-nominated writer and editor with over 6 years of work experience across literary editing, journalism, and content and social media marketing. In this online portfolio, you can find a selection of my work throughout the years.
If interested in commissioning me for a copywriting, journalistic, or literary project, you can contact me via lizdeyro@gmail.com.
As a freelance journalist since 2019 and a former associate editor for CNN Philippines, I've had the opportunity to cover stories on Philippine culture and current affairs. I have bylines in both print and digital magazines published in the Philippines and internationally.
After writing about the art industry for over three years, I decided to try my shot at submitting an entry for the 2021 Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism, for which my last-minute entry was shortlisted.
Since 2021, I have been working as a full-time, agency-based marketing specialist, specializing in content and social media marketing. As a former content coordinator, I strategized, developed, and published SEO-optimized blogs for local and international brands. Using the knowledge I got from this experience, I now accept freelance commissions to write the same type of content. Article list to be updated.
Working on social media as a content specialist, I do copywriting, copy editing, and a bit of creative direction for both organic content and paid ads.
Outside of work, I was a widely published poet and essayist. My poems specifically cover themes of feminism and women's rights. A poem of mine entitled "There is Violence Inside a Woman" was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize.
This literary journal published a poem of mine titled "Pyromania" as part of its Spring 2019 issue. The issue is available online and in print.
I maintained a column called Searchlight Song for Half Mystic, for which I wrote personal essays that looked into the relationship between identity and music
Publishing three of my poems, this now-defunct independent magazine brought me my first prize nomination for my literary work.
From 2017 to 2022, I have been an active participant in the online literary community, both as a writer and an editor. I founded my own publications as well as volunteered for different literary magazines, reading and editing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
The Brown Orient was a pan-Asian literary journal that platformed works by women and LGBTQIA+ writers and artists from underrepresented regions in Asia. Having published four print issues before going on an indefinite hiatus, I served as the founding editor-in-chief and creative director, leading a team of 10+ staff members.
This is a collection of poems written by women across the globe, both emerging and established in the literary scene. RECLAIM was a solo project for myself: I independently sourced, curated, published, marketed, and financed everything from start to finish. Print copies of the book are available at The Second Shelf (London), A Novel Idea (Philadelphia), and Books Actually (Singapore). It was also exhibited at the 2019 Poets House Showcase in New York.
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