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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
About Me
- Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author of 9 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, Vigan and Other Stories, and Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose. She edited four books, co-edited six books, and co-authored a novel, Angelica's Daughters. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has received several travel grants from the USIS. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She teaches creative writing at the Writers Program at UCLA-Extension. Her official website is www.ceciliabrainard.com
A LA CARTE FOOD & FICTION
Co-edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard & Marily Ysip Orosa ~www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardala.html
ACAPULCO AT SUNSET AND OTHER STORIES
Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardacapulco.html
ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS, A DUGTUNGAN NOVEL
Novel By Brainard, Cuizon, Evangelista, Montes, Sarreal ~ http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardangelica.html
BEHIND THE WALLS
Co-edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard & Marily Ysip Orosa ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardwalls.html
CECILIA'S DIARY 1964-1968
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainarddiary.html
CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA
Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardcontemporary.html
FINDING GOD: TRUE STORIES OF SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS
http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardfg.html
FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA
Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardfiction.html
FUNDAMENTALS OF CREATIVE WRITING
http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardfundamentals.html
JOURNEY OF 100 YEARS
Co-edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard & Edmundo Litton ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardjourney.html
GROWING UP FILIPINO STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardgrow.html
Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults (ed)
Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardgufII.html
MADGALENA
Novel by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardmagdalena.html
MAGNIFICAT: MAMA MARY'S PILGRIM SITES
Collection of Essays about Marian Pilgrim Sites
OUT OF CEBU: ESSAYS AND PERSONAL PROSE
Collection of 28 nonfiction essays by Cecilia M. Brainard, http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardcebu.html
PHILIPPINE WOMAN IN AMERICA
Collection of Essays by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardphilippine.html
VIGAN AND OTHER STORIES
Collection of Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~ http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardvigan.html
WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT
Novel by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardgoddess.html
WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES
Short Story Collection by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard ~http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardwoman.html
EXTERNAL LINKS and Other Sources
- Asian American Net's Bio about Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- Cebuana Trailblazers
- Cecilia Brainard on Facebook
- Cecilia Brainard's Site
- Eleanor Ty's writeup on Cecilia Manguerra Brainard in Asian American Novelists
- Interview of Cecilia Brainard by Daniel M. Jaffe
- Interview of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard by Dana Hubler (Poets & Writers, 1997)
- Possibilities of Humaneness in an Age of Slaughter, by Leonard Casper (re Song of Yvonne/When the Rainbow Goddess Wept)
- Review of Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal and When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Allen Gaborro
- The History of Filipino Women's Writings by Riita Vartti
- University of Michigan's site for When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
- University of Minnesota's Voices from the Gaps - Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- What Are You Writing On - Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing by Jane Eldridge Miller - Cecilia Brainard, page 45
- Who's Who of Asian Americans - Cecilia Manguerra Brainard bio
- Wikipedia Writeup about Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- YouTube - Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Interview by Jeepney Books
- YouTube - Miguel Syjuco & Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, ALOUD, LA Central Library
- YouTube - Reading by Cecilia Brainard & Veronica Montes of Angelica's Daughters
- YouTube- Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Reads at UCLA Extension's Publication Party, 6/9/10
- YouTube-Cecilia Manguerra Brainard- Books, Pictures with Literary Writers
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