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CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD: PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WRITER CALIFORNIA CEBU
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| Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning
author of eight books, including
the internationally-acclaimed
novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Magdalena, Vigan and Other Stories,
Acapulco at Sunset and Other Stories, Philippine Woman in America, Woman
With Horns and Other Stories, Cecilia's Diary 1962-1968, and Fundamentals
of Creative Writing.
She edited four books: Growing
Up Filipino I and II, Fiction by Filipinos in America,
Contemporary
Fiction
by Filipinos in America. Cecilia co-edited six books, including Journey
of 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of Philippine Independence;
Behind the Walls: Life of Convent GirlsAla Carte: Food and Fiction,
and Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters. She
has also written a novel with four other women entitled, Angelica's
Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel.
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. She received the prestigious Filipinas Magazine Arts Award, and 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). 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 |
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