TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Bino Realuyo's article on Filipino American Literature/Authors in Huffingtonpost.com

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Bino Realuyo's article on Filipino American Literature/Authors in Huffingtonpost.com

Bino A. Realuyo, author of The Umbrella Country, has an article in Huffingtonpost.com about Filipino American Literature. He kindly included me in the bookcase of Filipino American Brilliance. Thank you, Bino!

click on link to get to article, thank you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bino-a-realuyo/filipino-american-books_b_3008833.html

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tags: Filipino American, Philippine American, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Regie Cabico, Lara Stapleton, Sarah Gambito, Patrick Rosal, Barbara Jane Reyes, Jon Pineda, Oliver de la Paz, Hossanah Asuncio, R.A. Villanueva, Nita Noveno, Luis H. Francia, Joseph O. Legaspi, M. Evelina Galang, Gina Apostol, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ricco Siasoco, Laurel Fantauzzo, Grace Talusan, Luisa A. Igloria, Jessica Hagedorn, Eileen Tabios, Noel Alumit, Sasha Pimentel, Veronica Montes, Bino Realuyo, Nick Carbo, R. Zamora Linmark, Ninorchka Rosca,

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.