TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: book events

Monday, April 25, 2011

Book Signing Events this coming week

YOU ARE INVITED:

FRIDAY, April 29 - Veronica Montes & Cecilia Brainard will be at the Authors Night of Philippine Expressions to launch ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS and VIGAN AND OTHER STORIES, Friday, 5-9 pm, Community Hall, Ground Floor, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, 1145 Wilshire Blvd, LA, CA 90017; for more info, 310-514-9139;

SATURDAY, April 30 - Cecila Brainard and Veronica Montes will sign their books at the LA Festival of Books, Philippine Expressions Booth 024 in Trousdale Parkway, main promenade, from 11:30-3:30 p.m;

SATURDAY, April 30- Cecilia will also sign at the booth of AACP, booth 112 at the Festival of Books, 2:30-4 p.m.

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.