Angela Manalang-Gloria

Both poets vied for the position of literary editor of The Philippine Collegian, which Manalang eventually held for two successive years.

She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940.

This book was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael Zulueta y da Costa's verse Like the Molave.

[1] On March 11, 1945, her husband Celedonio and her son Ruben were attacked by a Japanese patrol in Alitagtag, Batangas.

This event left Manalang-Gloria a young widow with three children to support, which forced her to abandon writing and enter the abaca business, which she successfully managed.