TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: INVITATION: Pinay Gathering, Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 3/17/18 3 p.m.

Monday, March 5, 2018

INVITATION: Pinay Gathering, Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 3/17/18 3 p.m.

Philippine Expressions Bookshop
Invites you to a
Pinay Gathering
to honor Filipina American authors in celebration of Women's History Month

Saturday, March 17, 2018 from 3-6 p.m.
479 W. Sixth Street #105
San Pedro, CA 90731
RSVP 1-310-514-9139
Info@PhilippineBookshop.com

Books Talks & Signings with:
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (The Newspaper Widow),
Prosy Abarquez-DelaCruz (Even the Rainbow has a Body, Distinct Artistic Legacies),
Marianne Villanueva (Mayor of the Roses),
Irene Suico- Soriano (Primates from an Archipelago: Poems),
Angela Narcisso-Torres (Blood Orange: Poems), and
Tessie Jayme (Black Clouds in Manila)

JOIN US!

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Women and My Writing by Cecilia Brainard

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.