Gemma Guillermo received both her B.A. in English and M.D. from Cornell University and lives in the Northern California Bay Area, where she works as a psychiatrist. Her writing explores themes of migration, identity, family, and class through a cross-cultural lens. She is a past recipient of the William Carlos Williams Prize for medical students and a Pushcart-nominated essayist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review, American Literary Review, Hawai'i Review, and Kartika Review. She is a 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow and the winner of the 2025 Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest. She is currently at work on her manuscript, a memoir about a daughter of Filipino immigrants growing up in Hawaii. With the intimacy of a family photo album and the precision of clinical insight, Guillermo explores intergenerational trauma, cultural erasure, and the fragile boundaries between caretaking and disappearing into that role.