TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Hitting the Road to Go South

Monday, October 5, 2015

Hitting the Road to Go South - (Writeup of the FilAm Fest forthcoming)

Monday morning and I'm going to hit the road with my traveling companion to go South.

I'll be posting more pictures and do a writeup about the 3rd Filipino American International Book Festival, so stay tuned!

The picture above shows the writer Nikki Alfar and me striking a pose to show off our sister-boots. This was taken at the 3rd Filipino American Book Festival in San Francisco.

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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.