Rea M. Maac is originally from Marinduque, Philippines and has been working in Singapore since 2010. Her poem "Alikabok" was shortlisted for the Migrant Workers Poetry Competition Singapore 2016 and was included in the anthology "Songs from a Distance". She was one of the featured poets in Singapore Writers Festival 2017 and 2018.

She also contributed in the books Our Homes, Our Stories: Voices of Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore and Call and Response:A Migrant/Local Poetry Anthology. Her poems also appeared in the e-book Translating Migration and The Tiger Moth Review Eco Journal. Her first collection of poems "More Than Just A Shadow" was published in 2021 by Poetry Panet Publishing House.She is currently a helping hand in Carnival of Poetry, a monthly poetry event of Migrant Writers of Singapore.