Ricardo de Ungria

Ricardo "Ricky" Monreal De Ungria (born 1951) is a Filipino poet.

Early life and education De Ungria was born in 1951 and raised in Paco, Manila. He did spoken word poetry and performed in a rock band in the 1970s. He received writing residency fellowships at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in 1991 and the Bellagio Study of Conference Center in 1993. and hosts the Davao Writing Workshops, which started in 2005. The Guild has been publishing Cebuano, Filipino, Davaoeño, Karay-a, and English works in the literary journal Dagmay since 2001.

From 2007 to 2010, de Ungria served as Festival Director of Philippine International Arts Festivals. and a member of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL). In 2015 and 2016, he served as director-in-residence of Silliman University's National Writers Workshop. For many years, he was a fellow of the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing in UP Diliman. For his achievements in literature and writing, he was awarded the Gawad Balagtas by the UMPIL in 1999 and the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (Literature) by the City of Manila in 2007. He was also UP Artist 1 from 2009 to 2011 and 2012 to the present time and the recipient of nine National Book Awards as of 2025.

Personal life De Ungria's son Nikos died by suicide in 1998. Several of his subsequent poems focus heavily on this topic.