Maria Felisa H. Batacan is a Filipino journalist and a writer of crime and mystery fiction.
Batacan worked in the Philippine intelligence community and then became a broadcast journalist.
[1] She attended the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she pursued a master's degree in Arts Studies.
[2] Although most Filipino English-language fiction works garner a single print run of only 1,000 copies,[2] Smaller and Smaller Circles had been reprinted four times by the year 2006, for a total of 6,000 copies.
In 2008, she won 1st prize in the English short story category [4] of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards.