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Coming soon: Reimagining Cebu, CTU Event #500YOC

April 14, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

I prepared this picture of covers of books that I've written or edited. It's for the forthcoming Cebu Technological University Event on April 23, 2021 (Philippine time; April 22 California time). I'm the keynote speaker in the event called "Reimagining Cebu. It'll be via Zoom and CTU pages. It's part of the Quincentennial Commemoration of 500 Years of Writing about the Filipino World. #500YOC I'll … [Read more...] about Coming soon: Reimagining Cebu, CTU Event #500YOC

Filed Under: Fiction, Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: #500YOC

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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.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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