TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Safari in Kenya

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Safari in Kenya

We recently went on Safari to Kenya, which was great! I'll be uploading pictures taken at that wonderful trip.
top photo, taken at Maasai Mara in a Maasai Village, l-r: Cecilia Brainard, John Allen, Elizabeth Allen, and Maasai hosts. I'll be uploading more pictures on to this page in the coming days.

group photo, l-r: Elizabeth Allen, Ben Juma (our driver/guide), John Allen, Lauren Brainard, Cecilia Brainard

Cecilia Brainard feeding a rare Bongo

Cecilia Brainard on a tortoise

Lauren Brainard resting in the Maasai camp

Lauren Brainard with Maasai warriors

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

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.