Jose Maria Flores Lacaba, Jr., better known as Jose F. Lacaba, is a Filipino poet, journalist, and screenwriter. He was conferred the Aruna Vasudev Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Cinema during 10th Osian's Cinefan Festival held in New Delhi, India on 11 July 2008.

He is currently the executive editor of Summit Media's YES! Magazine.

Sir Pete (as he is often called) has written the screenplays of award winning feature films that have been shown at various international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Toronto. His screenplay credits include Jaguar, This Is My Country, Fight for Us, Sister Stella L., Eskapo, Segurista, and Rizal in Dapitan.

Jose Maria Flores Lacaba , popularly known as Pete Lacaba, is a Filipino film writer, editor, poet, screenwriter, journalist and translator .

Born in Cagayan de Oro in 1945 to Jose Monreal Lacaba of Loon, Bohol and Fe Flores from Pateros, Rizal, he is one of the leading figures in Philippine literature today. He is known in various fields, including creative writing, journalism, editing and scriptwriting.

Lacaba was recognized for his coverage of the First Quarter Storm in 1970, which was an anti- Marcos movement. During Martial Law, Lacaba fought President Ferdinand Marcos and his US-backed military dictatorship. Under the nom de plume Ruben Cuevas, Lacaba published his poem “Prometheus Unbound” at Focus, a magazine that had allied itself with the Marcos regime.

His poetry collections include Ang Mga Kagilagilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Juan de la Cruz (1979), Sa Daigdig ng Kontradiksyon (1991) and Sa Panahon ng Ligalig (1991). A new edition of his important, highly charged Days of Disquiet, Nights of Rage (1982), a reportage on the First Quarter Storm and the subsequent times, has also been released.