Background
Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido was born in Socorro oriental mindoro, where her father worked as a star. After her father"s death, she and her mother returned to Manila in 1917.
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She graduated from Manila East High School, and in 1929, she took the civil service examination in order to work in the Bureau of Education, and passed it with a grade of 97 percent, the highest then on record.
Career
She then began to work at the Institute of National Language. In 1940, she published Tagalog Phonetics and Orthography, which she co-authored with Virginia Gamboa-Mendoza. After the war, the Subidos put up a daily newspaper, The Manila Post, which closed in 1947 and made her a freelance writer
She then became editor of Kislap-Graphic and Philippine Home Economics Journal.
She retired in 1971, and in 1984, she was invited by the Women in Media Now to write the introduction to Filipina I, the first anthology consisting of works made exclusively by Filipino women. She was honored in 1991 by the Unyon ng Mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL).
She died in 1994. In 2002, her family published a manuscript Tarrosa-Subido had been working on at the time of her death.
Titled Private Edition: Sonnets and Other Poems (Milestone Publication), the retrospective volume contains 89 poems, a few of them revised and retitled versions of the originals.One of them is "To My Native Land".
Membership
She became a member of the Uttar Pradesh Writers Club and contributed her sonnets.
