TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Author Reading: Cecilia Brainard Reads from Her SELECTED SHORT STORIES & Q&A

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Author Reading: Cecilia Brainard Reads from Her SELECTED SHORT STORIES & Q&A

YouTube link to Cecilia Brainard Reading from her SELECTED SHORT STORIES & Q&A

https://youtu.be/KrMi9qsgTVk

Filipino American novelist Cecilia Manguerra Brainard reads a short short from her SELECTED SHORT STORIES (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House 2021), a collection of 39 stories. She also discusses writing about the Philippines from California. Cecilia is the author of three novels: the World War Two novel WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT; MAGDALENA, and the literary mystery THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW. Her website is ceciliabrainard.com.
This is excerpted from the Panel Discussion with Filipino and Fil-Am Writers Event hosted by the Philippine Embassy in the United States, March 8, 2021.

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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.