Virginia Moreno

Virginia R. Moreno (April 24, 1923 – August 14, 2021) was a Filipina writer, poet, and playwright.

[1] She studied at the University of the Philippines, where she was editor of the campus newspaper, and at the Kansas Institute of International Education.

Her play Straw Patriot (1956) was translated into Filipino by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez in 1967 as Bayaning huwad.

In 1969, she won the National Historical Playwriting Contest for her play The Onyx Wolf, also known as La Loba Negra and Itim Asu.

Moreno also took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.