TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Interviews from FilAmBook Fest & Book Launch Out of Cebu Today!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Interviews from FilAmBook Fest & Book Launch Out of Cebu Today!

Here's a video clip of Interviews of Filipino and Filipino American authors from the FilAm Book Fest. It includes snippets of me and pictures of some of my books. Click here or go to vimeo.com/35542625

Meantime, the book launch of OUT OF CEBU: ESSAYS AND PERSONAL PROSE will be this afternoon, 2:30 p.m., Granada Room, Casino Espanol, on V. Ranudo Street, Cebu City. All those interested are invited. A hard copy invitation is not needed. There will be a reading of excerpts from the book by Louie Nacorda, Mayen Angbetic-Tan, Dodong Canete, Pia Marie Mercado, Fr. Jun Rebayla, SVD, and Gavin Bagares.

Join us for a fun literary event!

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.