Aldrin Badiola
is a poet. he promises!
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 country or disco, or writing 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's currently working on a full-length. Feel free to ask him about it!
PATRILINEAL
(ink & ivy lit, June 2025)
poetry chapbook
PRINT ($12): https://ko-fi.com/s/26a79926c1
EBOOK ($3): https://ko-fi.com/s/b5aae937c6
“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
Buried Love in Archived Websites
(Ghost City Press, July 2025)
hybrid microchapbook
EBOOK (free): https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/buried-love-in-archived-websites
"[...] 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)
Publications
2026
The Rumpus, January 2026
"Unlocked Alcohol Cabinet"
"Insatiable Memory"The Keats-Shelley Review, January 2026 (print)
"The Mourning"
Education
Johns Hopkins University Poetry class under Gabriella Fee, February 2026 to April 2026
Iowa Young Writers' Studio Poetry student under Regina Napolitano, June 2025
Johns Hopkins University Fiction class under Lysley Tenorio, February 2025 to April 2025
Adroit Journal mentee for Poetry under Jeddie Sophronius, June 2024 to July 2024
Sankofa Museum Creative Writing workshop under Unique Mical Robinson, March 2024 to May 2024
Johns Hopkins University Poetry class under Bruce Snider, February 2024 to April 2024
Awards
Winner of the Keats-Shelley Young Romantics Prize for "The Mourning," April 2025
Maryland Junior Achievement 18 Under 18 Honoree, January 2025
Four Silver Keys and Two Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2025
fMRI Writing Prize Youth Winner with The Hopkins Review for "Hinahanap-Hanap," September 2024
Best of the Net nominee with Spark to Flame Journal for collaborative poems with Emily Winters and Aisha Al-Tarawneh, 2024
Experience
Editor-in-chief of Literary Undoings, May 2025 to February 2026
Writing intern with Writers in Baltimore Schools, July 2024 and July 2026
Creator and leader of workshop ("Exploring Identity Through Other Perspectives: Transformative Poetry and its Different Forms") with Young Poets Workshops, July 2024
Editor-in-chief of Artists from Maryland, March 2024 to present
Selected Performances
Queering Baltimore Lit with the CityLit Project, fifth wheel press, and Mason Jar Press, September 2026, various pieces from PREY (fifth wheel press, 2028) and my work-in-progress full-length poetry collection
fMRI Flash Fiction Prize: A Reading and Celebration with The Hopkins Review, October 2025, "Hinahanap-Hanap"
Reading with ink & ivy lit, February 2025, selected pieces from PATRILINEAL (ink & ivy lit, 2025)
Annual reading at the Enoch Pratt Library with the Light Street Writers Exchange, June 2024, "Fatherhood Apologia"
Poetry and Social Engagement: A Poetry Reading with WBS/JHU, April 2024, "Fatherhood Apologia"
Made in Baltimore, Too with the Handel Choir, March 2024, "KAMATYAN"