Prolific and multiawarded writer, literary critic and educator Lilia Quindoza Santiago died on Feb. 16, leaving as her legacy a voluminous and celebrated body of work, and many lessons taught across diverse fields of discipline.
Santiago retired as an assistant professor of Ilokano language and literature at the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), and worked at Tidewater Community College as an adjunct professor of English. She also worked as a consultant to the National Foreign Language Center, a research institute of the University of Maryland, up to the time of her death.
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