https://miguelwrites.com/home daily 0.75 2026-09-17 https://miguelwrites.com/the-hungry-ghosts daily 0.75 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6240b9d97a66a8740e62f38b/a1868394-b451-40f9-93bd-75b1615b6999/223912418_2293201264149142_1118968880168655937_n.jpg the hungry ghosts https://miguelwrites.com/featured-on daily 0.75 2026-09-17 https://miguelwrites.com/findme daily 0.75 2026-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6240b9d97a66a8740e62f38b/fad99fc6-9e3b-4322-af24-74b41ba7fd56/MSF01956_1_03.jpg findme https://miguelwrites.com/out-of-this-soil-a-knife daily 1.0 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6240b9d97a66a8740e62f38b/4aceeb78-0f7d-4d7b-8b4f-e525d13e8703/ootsak.png out of this soil, a knife https://miguelwrites.com/about-me daily 0.75 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6240b9d97a66a8740e62f38b/b55f74ce-7035-4c46-a75e-f1757164872a/MSF01956_1_03.jpg about me - mabuhay, cousins my name is miguel santiago flores. i am a filipino-american educator, organizer, and writer who has spent their entire life living in the hyphen. i’ve lived in various places across the united states, but my heaviest influences come from the appalachian mountains and southeastern coastlines. although i dabble in things like photography and fiction, i consider myself a poet first and foremost. it is the literary genre that i find most often aligns with my various “day jobs,” which have included domestic violence advocate, library worker, high school teacher, and more. i am currently in the middle of writing a literary novel, three different poetry books, a TTRPG about labor organizing, and a photography-hybrid love letter to the mountains. if you’d like to follow more of what i do, you can find me @miginabox on instagram, @miguelfrodoflores on facebook, or @miguelsantiagoflores on substack.