Nerisa Del Carmen Guevara is an associate professor at UST, where she teaches creative writing and serves as a resident fellow at the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies. She is the author of "Reaching Destination: Poems and the Search for Home" (UST Publishing House, 2004). Guevara has been honored with a Carlos Palanca Poetry Award and a Catholic Mass Media Award for Best Secular Album (Special Citation). Additionally, she was a finalist for the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award for Poetry.

Her poetry has been featured in various international and national publications and anthologies, including Cha Asian Journal (Hong Kong, 2018), "The Achieve Of, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English mid-90s to 2016" (Manila, 2018), The Comstock Review (New York, 2018), Tomás literary journal (Manila, 2018, 2019), and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (Hong Kong, 2020), among others.

Guevara is a featured artist in the Southeast Asia Performance Collection, launched at the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) in London. Her performance art pieces, "Elegies" and "Infinite Gestures," presented as poetry in space, have been exhibited in PERFORMATURA (Manila), SIPA International Art Festival (Philippines), Biennale Jogja Equator V (Indonesia), LAPSody (Helsinki), and Grace Exhibition Space (New York), among others.

She received the artistic residency Residensi Kelana, funded by the Cemeti Institute for Society and Art. The early career researcher of GlobalGRACE WP4, supported by the UKRI’s Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF), and the director of the LGBTQIA Virtual Artistic Residency GlobalGRACE Ph AiR for 2021. Recently, she participated in a successful poetry performance at the Tagore International Art and Literature Festival VISHWA RANG 2022 in Bhopal, India, where five of her poems were translated into Hindi.