TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: A Day with Susan Brooks, American Peace Corps Volunteer to Bago, Negros, Philippines

Thursday, October 2, 2014

A Day with Susan Brooks, American Peace Corps Volunteer to Bago, Negros, Philippines

Susan Brooks, who recently completed her two-year service to the American Peace Corps, visited Santa Monica, California. Susan served in Bago, Negros, Philippines. The pictures show us at Chez Jay Restaurant, Versailles Restaurant, Tongva Park, and the Santa Monica Pier.

I connected with Susan in 2013 when she invited me to participate in a five-day Creative Writing Workshop for her students of Ramon Torres National High School in Bago, Negros, Philippines.

Here are some links about Susan Brooks:
Interview of American Peace Corps Volunteer, Susan Brooks
Creative Writing Workshop Organized by Susan Brooks
Fiesta sa Parian, Cebu with PCV guests Susan Brooks and Elaine Sweet

Tags: American, Peace Corps Volunteer, PCV, Peace Corps. Susan Brooks, Philippines, Cecilia Brainard, Negros, Bago

This is all for now,
Cecilia

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.