Micronesian woman with long dark hair wearing a ribbed light pink sweater, green statement earrings, and pleated brown pants against a dark background.

Siobhon Rumurang is a Chamoru Palauan writer, artist, and educator from Guåhan. Her work moves through the long aftermaths of war and dispossession in the Pacific.

Working across forms (essay, film, zine, and curriculum), Siobhon’s practice is grounded in historical research and narratives of refusal. She documents life beyond militarism and natural disaster — remapping the lands, waters, and peoples of contemporary American ruins. She’s interested in the converging histories of place, Indigenous death rites and collective grief, the limitations of witness, futility and futurism, mechanisms of resistance in the occupied realm, and homelands reconstructed from annihilated memory.

Her writing has appeared in Kinalamten Gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania and is forthcoming in Na’huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature and Reckoning Magazine. She was part of the 2024 Guam Literary Arts Delegation to the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, where she published The Earth Is Our Country, a community zine on militarization and reclamation.

As a 2020 NDN Collective Changemaker Fellow, Siobhon helped co-develop the founding curriculum for a trades and lifeways school in the Marianas, blending vocational training with Indigenous Chamoru and Micronesian knowledge sharing. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as an educator and curriculum writer, contributing to Chamoru-centered textbooks and cultural programs.

She currently serves as Program Coordinator at Nihi Indigenous Media, where she writes and produces collaborative storytelling projects—documentary, animation, and digital media—uplifting the Marianas and Micronesia.

She lives and works in Guåhan, where she continues to organize, write, and dream toward a liberated Pacific.