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External Links
Asian American Novelists (page 29)
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Thrills UST Audience at CCWLS Lecture
CNN “Childhood in the Path of Typhoons”
Carlos Bulosan Book Club “Creative Writing Workshop by Cecilia Brainard, 4–19-25
Cebuano Studies Center & the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. “The Cebuana in the World: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Writing Out of Cebu.” Documentary Video premiered Feb. 7, 2023.
Filipino American History Month: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Leonard Casper’s Possibilities of Humaneness in an Age of Slaughter
Read Pinoy Philippine National Book Development Board, Interview of Cecilia Brainard
The History of Filipino Women’s Writings
Trailblazing Cebuana Writers
Voices from the Gaps, University of Minnesota