I received confirmation from Barbara Abercrombie that my essay about my cat, Kiki, will be part of the collection, "CHERISHED: 21 WRITERS ON ANIMALS THEY'VE LOVED AND LOST (New World Library, approx. April 2011). I'm thrilled to be in a book that'll include Anne Lamott and Jane Smiley and the other fine writers.
The contributors are:
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
May-lee Chai
Michael Chitwood
Melissa Cistaros
Mark Doty
Samantha Dunn
Linzi Glass
Robert Goldman, DVM (Preface)
Monica Holloway
Judith Lewis
Ted Kooser
Sonia Levitin
Anne Lamott
Thomas McGuane
Billy Mernit
Joe Morgenstern
Robin Romm
Jenny Rough
Carolyn See
Jane Smiley
Jacqueline Winspear
Victoria Zackheim
Monday, June 14, 2010
Forthcoming: CHERISHED: 21 WRITERS ON ANIMALS THEY'VE LOVED AND LOST
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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