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August 24, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard is the author and edi­tor of over twen­ty books. Cecil­ia grew up in the port city of Cebu in Cen­tral Philip­pines, a place that retains its Span­ish-Colo­nial influ­ences, inspir­ing Cecil­ia to cre­ate her myth­i­cal set­ting called “Ubec” which echoes the San­to Niño Church, tri­an­gu­lar Span­ish fort, and old build­ings and streets of the real Cebu.

Her three nov­els — When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, Mag­dale­na, and The News­pa­per Wid­ow are set (even par­tial­ly) in Ubec. Ubec also appears in her three short sto­ry col­lec­tions — Woman in Horns and Oth­er Sto­ries, Aca­pul­co at Sun­set and Oth­er Sto­ries, and Vigan and Oth­er Sto­ries.

Respond­ing to the needs of her Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties, Cecil­ia edit­ed fic­tion and non­fic­tion col­lec­tions, includ­ing Fic­tion by Fil­ipinos in Amer­i­ca, Con­tem­po­rary Fic­tion by Fil­ipinos in Amer­i­ca, Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino: Sto­ries for Young Adults, and Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino II: More Sto­ries for Young Adults.

Cecil­ia has taught at the Writ­ers’ Pro­gram at UCLA Exten­sion, UCLA, USC, and the Cal­i­for­nia State Sum­mer School for the Arts (CSSSA). She con­tin­ues to lec­ture and per­form in lit­er­ary arts venues such as Shake­speare and Com­pa­ny in Paris, Cul­ture Rapi­de in Paris, Beyond Baroque, PEN, Com­ing Togeth­er in Skok­ie Illi­nois, Sec­ond Lit­er­ary Sym­po­sium in Jack­son Ten­nessee, Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­vals, Cebu Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­vals, and many Philip­pine and US universities.

As a for­mer Exec­u­tive Board Mem­ber of the writ­ers’ group PEN, she rep­re­sent­ed PEN USA West in Inter­na­tion­al meet­ings in Barcelona and San­ti­a­go de Com­postela. She served as an offi­cer in such groups as the Mid­night Spe­cial Cul­tur­al Cen­ter, PAAWWW (Pacif­ic Asian Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers West), and the Arts & Let­ters at the Cal State Uni­ver­si­ty, LA.

Cecil­ia co-found­ed PAWWA (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers and Artists) a sup­port group that received fund­ing by the Cal­i­for­nia Arts Coun­cil. She found­ed and runs PALH (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House) a small pub­lish­ing house of fine Philip­pine Amer­i­can books. She is an active mem­ber of the Philip­pine and Philip­pine Amer­i­can lit­er­ary communities.

Nov­els:
When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept — Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Press, 1999, soft­cov­er, 216 pages, ISBN 0472086375; Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House, 2019, soft­cov­er (Philip­pine Edi­tion), 9879715068420; Kin­dle
Mag­dale­na — US Edi­tion: Plain View Press, soft­cov­er, 164 pages, ISBN 1–891386–29–8; Philip­pine Edi­tion: Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House, soft­cov­er, 146 pages, ISBN 978–971–506–801‑7; Kin­dle
The News­pa­per Wid­ow — Uni­ver­si­ty of San Tomas Pub­lish­ing House, 2017, soft­cov­er, 238 pages, ISBN 9780715068116; Kin­dle
Oth­er Recent books:
Mag­i­cal Years: Mem­o­ries & Sketch­es - PALH, 2020, hardover 8 x 8 in, 37 pages, ISBN 97871945890, Spe­cial Lim­it­ed Edi­tion of 100 hard­bound copies
Please, San Anto­nio! & Melisande in Paris, Two novel­las by Eve La Salle Caram and Cecil­ia Brainard, PALH, 2018, soft­cov­er with illus­tra­tions, 166 pages, ISBN 978097945883
Clas­sic Col­lec­tions of Short Stories:
Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino: Sto­ries for Young Adults , Edit­ed by Cecil­ia Brainard, PALH, 2003, soft­cov­er, 283 pages, ISBN 0971945802; Kin­dle
Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino II: More Sto­ries for Young Adults, Edit­ed by Cecil­ia Brainard, PALH, 2010, soft­cov­er, 258 pages ISBN 978–0‑9719458–3‑8; Kin­dle
Cecilia’s oth­er books are list­ed in her offi­cial site: ceciliabrainard.com
Tags: Philip­pines, Fil­ipino, fic­tion, sto­ries, books, writer, author, Cebu, novel­la, his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, young adult, Pinoy

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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