Ma. Felisa H. Batacan

Maria Felisa H. Batacan (a.k.a. F.H. Batacan) is a Filipino journalist and a writer of crime and mystery fiction. Her work has been published in the Philippines and abroad.

She was a fellow at the 1996 Dumaguete National Writers' Workshop. Her literary awards include two Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature – including the 1999 Grand Prize for the English Novel for her first novel, "Smaller and Smaller Circles", published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2002. The same novel won the Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Award in 2002, as well as the Madrigal-Gonzales Best First Book Award in 2003.

She worked in the Philippine intelligence community for several years before making the transition to journalism. She has been a current affairs producer and writer for several Philippine television networks. In 2000, she moved to Singapore to work as a business journalist for a leading newspaper there. In 2005, she represented the Philippines in the Singapore Writers' Festival. She is now a news editor for an all-news radio station in Singapore.

She is currently at work on a second novel and a collection of short fiction. She is also guest-editing a special crime, suspense and mystery issue of Philippine Genre Stories, slated for release in December 2008.

She maintains a website at http://fhbatacan.blogspot.com.