Timothy James Dimacali

TJ is a third-world futurist: "We need Filipino science fiction," he says, "to tell us where we're headed and to dream where we might go." He took up Creative Writing in UP Diliman and was a writing fellow at the Iligan National Writers Workshop (2009) and the Silliman University National Writers Workshop (2012). He has had a distinguished career in public relations and advertising and is now the Science & Technology Editor of GMA News Online, where he advocates science education in the Philippines. TJ also collects robots, owns a couple of pet tarantulas, and plays the violin. Ultimately, his outlook on life is one of perpetual hope: "How can you not fall in love in a Universe whose very existence depends on every star and every atom falling for each other?"