Edith Tiempo

Edith Cutaran Lopez-Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011) was a Filipino poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic in the English language.

[1] She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

[1] Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Halaman" and "Bonsai.

Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing."

She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English.