TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Jhoanna Lynn Cruz in 2021 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading October 9

Monday, August 9, 2021

Jhoanna Lynn Cruz in 2021 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading October 9

2021 HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, a program of the Filipino American International Book Festival, and sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library & PAWA, will go virtual this year, on Saturday, October 9, 2021 Pacific Time, from 5-6:30 p.m.
Register at the San Francisco Public Library, Events page: https://sfpl.org/events/#!/filters?date-end-after=10/09/2021
Get to know JHOANNA LYNN CRUZ, author of Abi Nako, Or So I Thought (UP 2020). Abi Nako is part-essay, confession, part auto-detective work, a leap of love and faith. It sings off the page, intimate, questing, embedded in the local and the body. It gives us a way to live, make art, and dance.
Find Jhoanna at twitter@jhoannalynncruz or Instagram@jhoannacruz2

PRESS RELEASE: https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2021/08/press-release-2021-hot-off-press.html
Eventbrite link: https://tinyurl.com/24ucb88u
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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.