Mia P. Manansala

Mia P Manansala is an author and book coach from Chicago who is best known as the author of the “Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery” series of novels. She is known for her love of badass women, baking and books and use of humor to explore aspects of Filipino queerness, the Diaspora and her love for millennial pop culture. She is the winner of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award at the Eleanor Taylor Bland Awards in 2018, won the Hugh Holton Award in the same year. Manansala has won the Helen McCloy/Mystery Writers of America Scholarship in 2016 and is a 2018-2020 Pitch Wars mentor and alumnus. Mia loves all things geeky and spends much of her day playing JRPGs, procrastibaking, reading cozy mysteries, dating sims and cuddling her three dogs, Bayley Banks, Max Power and Gumiho. “Arsenic and Adobo,” her debut novel in the “Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery” series, was first published in 2021.