The revolutionary poet and activist Kerima Lorena Tariman was born in 1979 in Legazpi City in the province of Albay. She graduated as salutatorian from the Philippine High School for the Arts in 1996 and went on to the University of the Philippines Diliman where she served as managing editor for the Philippine Collegian from 1999 to 2000.
Her poems appeared in several outlets, including the Sunday Inquirer Magazine and the Manila Chronicle. During her life she published the poetry collections Biyahe (1996), Pag-aaral sa Oras: Mga Lumang Tula Tungkolsa Bago (2017), and Luisita: Mga Tula (2021). She died at the age of forty-two at the hands of the Philippine military on 20 August 2021. A comprehensive compilation of her poems, Sa Aking Henerasyon: Mga Tula at Saling-Tula, was published after her death by Gantala Press in 2022.
