Aldrin Badiola

Aldrin Badiola (he/him) is a Filipino poet who has a perpetually messy bedroom. He loves cheesecake. He is currently procrastinating doing the next big thing. Catch him listening to disco music (and occasionally, country), or writing poems on the backs of diner menus!He is the author of PATRILINEAL (ink & ivy lit, 2025), Buried Love in Archived Websites (Ghost City Press, 2025), and PREY (fifth wheel press, forthcoming 2028)! He is currently shopping around a chapbook manuscript while working on a full-length manuscript.

Photo credit: Patrice Hutton, CityLit Stage at the Baltimore Book Festival, September 2026

PATRILINEAL
(ink & ivy lit, June 2025)
poetry chapbook

“Aldrin Badiola's exquisite work, PATRILINEAL, explores the underpinnings of fathers and sons, a myriad of manhoods, and the extent and frailty of forgiveness. [...] His unique voice and talent seem beyond his years. Do yourself, your family, and your friends a favor and internalize these poems!” —Brenda Serpick, educator and poet"Throughout PATRILINEAL, the reader is led in a masterful dance through each scar, each burn mark, each kiss, each lingering silence that defines a boy-into-manhood. This debut is fiery, painful, beautiful, and above all, it is alive. Throughout this journey, Badiola grows from father to son in the most heart wrenching ways." —Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott, author of GOSPELS FOR THE TONGUE-TIED (kith books)"A collection brimming with paternal breaths, Aldrin Badiola understands how to juggle fatherhood and selfhood into an art of deliverance." —Jaiden Geolingo, author of How to Migrate Ghosts (kith books)

• PRINT
• DIGITAL

Buried Love in Archived Websites
(Ghost City Press, July 2025)
hybrid microchapbook

"[...] This micro-collection is for the yearners, for the bodies who refuse to let go. There’s so much to unravel in these words, and there’s so much to cradle. Buried Love in Archived Websites is what it means to want.” —Jaiden Geolingo, author of How to Migrate Ghosts (kith books)

• DIGITAL

PREY
(fifth wheel press, February 2028)
poetry chapbook

[forthcoming!]

Publications

2026

The Rumpus, January 2026
"Unlocked Alcohol Cabinet"
"Insatiable Memory"The Keats-Shelley Review, January 2026 (print)
"The Mourning"

2025

& Change (print), Baltimore Beat (print), Cloudscent Journal, Aster Lit, The Hopkins Review

2024

JAKE, MEARI, Queering the Quill (print), Fleeting Daze Magazine, Frighten the Horses, Writeadelic

2023

Apple a Day, Cutbow Quarterly, CHARM, Backwards Trajectory, HaluHalo Journal

Education

Awards

Professional Experience

Selected Performances