Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.

Cecilia has received 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.  She has also been awarded by the Filipino and Filipino American communities she has served.  In 1998, she received the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has received several travel grants in the Philippines, from the USIS (United States Information Service). In 2001, she received a Filipinas Magazine Award for Arts.

She has lectured and performed in worldwide literary arts organizations and universities, including UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Beyond Baroque, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others.  She teaches creative writing at the Writers Program at UCLA-Extension. 

She is married to Lauren R. Brainard, a former Peace Corp Volunteer to Leyte, Philippines; they have three sons.

VISIT THE SITES BELOW FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE CECILIA BRAINARD

<http://www.palhbooks.com/Brainard2.htm>

<http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Classroom/Student_writing/1301v-s2005/Group3/Philippines_files/page0002.htm

<http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/brainard_cecilia_manguerra.html>

<http://www.toobeautiful.org/waywo_ceciliabrainard.html>

<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_29/ai_n6148073/print> (Artistic Creativity, Form, and Fictional Experimentaion in Filipina American Fiction by Helena Grice, MELUS, Spring 2004