Mikael de Lara Co has been a fellow at various national writers workshops and the recipient of numerous literary awards in the Philippines, including back-to-back first prizes in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Poetry in English (2007) and in Filipino (2008). His translation of Edgar Samar’s Eight Muses of the Fall (Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog) was long-listed for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.