TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: #Authors Randy Ribay and Eliza Victoria in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7 & 8, 2017 #FilAm Book Fest

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

#Authors Randy Ribay and Eliza Victoria in HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings Oct 7 & 8, 2017 #FilAm Book Fest

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Here are two more authors who'll be participating in the HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings in San Francisco on October 7 and 8, 2017. These readings are part of the Filipino American International Book Festival. They will be held at the San Francisco Main Library at 100 Larkin Street, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 94102.

I'll be featuring more participants of the HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, so stay tuned!

To view the complete schedule of the three HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Readings, click here : http://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2017/09/schedule-hot-off-press-literary.html

Randy Ribay will be reading from After the Shot Drops (HMH Books for Young Reader 2018).

Randy Ribay is the author of the young adults books, An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes (Simon Pulse 2015) and After the Shot Drops.

Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in Michigan and Colorado. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ed.M. in Language & Literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After a decade on the East Coast, Randy now lives in the SF Bay Area with his wife and two dog-children, where he teaches high school English.

Eliza Victoria will be reading from the fantasy/mystery Dwellers (Visprint 2014)

Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning Dwellers (Visprint 2014) and the graphic novel After Lambana (2016, a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several online and print publications and have won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards, among others. She was a Writing Fellow at the 54th UP National Writers Workshop, a Guest Panelist at the 54th Silliman University National Writers Workshop, and a Panelist in the inaugural Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Writers Workshop. Her site is https://elizavictoria.com/ .

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including 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, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.