Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 –
August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic
was a Filipino writer in the English language.Her poems are intricate
verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in
two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest
Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as
morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive
but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential
tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late
husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in
1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in
Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best
writers.She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in
1999.