TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cecilia Brainard 2010 Retrospective in Pictures

Friday, December 31, 2010

Cecilia Brainard 2010 Retrospective in Pictures

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From top to bottom:
January - Cebu Normal University
February - India
April - San Miguel Allende, Mexico, with Lauren, Doug, Hilary, and Myrna
April - LA, with Linda Nietes, and other Filipino American writers
May - LA Library, with Miguel Syjuco
June - (photo taken in Mission Santa Barbara, California)
June - Cebu, Philippines, taken at Yap-Sandiego House
August - France,with Lauren and Michael Genelin
August - Kenya
October - LA, Gawad Kalinga, with Carina Montoya
November - San Francisco, with teachers of Galileo High School
November - San Francisco, with Veronica Montes
November - San Francisco,with Theresian High School chums (STC San Marcelino)

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.