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- Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin (May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his English-language short stories and novels.
- His father, Leocadio Joaquin, worked as an attorney at the Laguna Court of First Instance, where he met his second wife, Salome, Joaquin's mother.
- Joaquin was already experimenting with his literary voice at a young age. He published his first English poem, Don Quixote, at the age of 17, in the literary section of the pre-World War II Tribune, where he worked as a proofreader.
- Later, in 1937, he published his first short story, "The Sorrows of Vaudeville," in the Sunday Tribune Magazine, telling the story of the vaudevilles in Manila, a city he was enamored with. Serafin Lanot, a writer and editor, accepted it.
- He was well-known as a historian of Spain's brief Golden Age in the Philippines, a writer of folk Roman Catholic short stories, a playwright, and a novelist. Joaquin's works were written in English.
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