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Trinidad Tarrosa Subido (14 June 1912 – 7 February 1994 ) was a Filipino linguist, writer, and poet who wrote of the Filipino woman’s experience using the English language during and after the American colonial period in the Philippines.

Biography
Tarrosa Subido was born to Filipino parents in Shanghai, China, where her father worked as a musician. Her immediate family had moved to British Hong Kong when she was young, and lived there for a few years until her father passed away. After her father passed, Tarrosa Subido and her mother returned to Manila in 1917. Tarrosa Subido was sent to live with her mother's family when they returned to Manila, and her aunt taught at Quiapo Primary School, where she was admitted a year earlier than typically allowed. It is believed that this is because she already spoke English, learning the language in Hong Kong.

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. She enrolled as a working student at the University of the Philippines Manila in 1932 and met her husband Abelardo Subido. She became a member of the UP Writers Club and contributed her sonnets.

She got married in 1936 and graduated magna cum laude the following year. 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. In 1945, she and her husband published poems titled Three Voices, with an introduction by Salvador P. Lopez. 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. In 1950, her translation in English of "Florante at Laura" by Francisco Balagtas was recognized. In 1954, she was commissioned to write the "Brief History of the Feminist Movement in the Philippines."

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".