Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books..
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 lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.
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So how did you do at Santa Anita? I found your blog on blogcatalog by searching under some of the tags I use (e.g.,"horse racing"). I'm an amateur handicapper that loves playing Santa Anita.
Here's hoping you had a wonderful trip to the track. You're a magnificent writer, by the way!
We had a great time, weather sunny although chilly, but I lost. I "handicap" by looking at the names o the horses or jockey or if it's a gray horse, or however the Spirit moves me. I actually think I do the same as others who handicap seriously.
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